112                              Laws of Maryland                         Ch. 96

362.

(a)  The Office of Economic Opportunity of the State of Maryland
shall be part of the State Department of Employment and Social
Services. The Secretary of Employment and Social Services, with
the approval of the Governor, shall appoint an Executive Director
of the Office who shall be chief administrative and executive officer
thereof. The Secretary of Employment and Social Services, with the
approval of the Governor, shall also appoint a deputy director of
the Office who shall be the principal assistant to the Executive
Director. They shall not be subject to the provisions of Article 64A
of this Code, and shall be selected because of their known experi-
ence and interest in the advancement and development of economic
opportunity. They shall receive such salaries as provided in the
budget from time to time.

(b)   The exercise of all authority, duties, and functions vested in
the Office of Economic Opportunity or the Executive Director or
deputy director thereof by the provisions of this subtitle or by any
other laws of this State shall be subject to the authority of the
Secretary of Employment and Social Services as set forth in Article
41 of this Code or elsewhere in the laws of Maryland.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 2 (a), (c), and 4 (b) of Article 70B of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition, 1967 Replacement
Volume, 1969 Supplement), title "Commission on the Aging," be
and they are hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, all
to read as follows:

2.

(a) There is hereby created as part of the State Department of
Employment and Social Services a commission to be known as the
State Coordinating Commission on Problems of the Aging. The
Commission shall consist of [sixteen (16)] seventeen (17) mem-
bers, eleven of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, with the
advice of the Secretary of Employment and Social Services, for
terms of six years. Of the eleven members appointed by the Gover-
nor, one shall be a member of the Senate of Maryland, one a member
of the House of Delegates of Maryland, one a representative of the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, one a representative
of the Baltimore City Medical Society, one a representative of labor,
one a representative of industry, one member who shall be specially
knowledgeable in research, one member who shall be associated with
the work of charitable organizations, and three members who shall
be selected because of their interest in the problems of the aging.
Of the said ten members first appointed, two shall be appointed
for terms of two years, two for terms of three years, two for terms
of four years, two for terms of five years and two for terms of six
years each. The Governor, with the advice of the Secretary of Em-
ployment and Social Services, shall designate one of said eleven
members as chairman of the Commission. In case of any vacancy,
the Governor, with the advice of the Secretary of Employment and
Social Services, shall appoint a successor to serve for the remainder
of the unexpired term. Members thereof shall be eligible for reap-
pointment. [Five] Six members of the Commission shall be, ex
officio, the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Director of