1128                             Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 512

area. Where no comprehensive health plan has been developed for a
particular area, the State's comprehensive health planning agency
shall make the determinations required. This reference is to the
comprehensive health plan developed and effective under Section 59C
of Article 41 of this Code. Nothing contained in this subtitle shall be
construed as authorizing the medical supervision, regulation or con-
trol of the spiritual care or spiritual treatment of residents or pa-
tients in any hospital, home or related institution who rely upon
treatment by prayer or spiritual means in accordance with the creed
or tenets of any recognized church or religious denomination. Except
that the provisions of this act SUBSECTION shall apply in Prince
George's County immediately upon enactment of this amendment
AFTER APRIL 1, 1970, and providing further that the Prince
George's County Health Planning Advisory Committee shall be
deemed the interim regional health facilities planning agency for
Prince George's County pending designation of a permanent plan-
ning agency for any region that shall include Prince George's County.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate pres-
ervation of the public health and safety and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 28, 1970

CHAPTER 512
(House Bill 1263)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 10 of
Chapter 435 of the Acts of 1968, said section relating to the time by
which projects contained in the General Construction Loan of 1968
must be placed under contract; to provide for an additional two
years to place these projects under contract.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 10 of Chapter 435 of the Acts of 1968 be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Section 10. And be it further enacted, That if any project listed
in Section 5 of this Act shall not have contracted for within [two (2)]
four (4) years from the effective date of this Act, then such project
shall be deemed to have been abandoned. If the total loan authorized
herein shall have been issued within [two (2)] four (4) years from
the effective date of this Act, then the amount specified herein for
said abandoned project shall be transferred to the Annuity Bond
Fund and shall be applied to the debt service requirements of the
State. If, however, the total loan authorized herein shall not have
been issued within [two (2)] four (4) years from the effective date
of this Act, then the total issuable Certificates of Indebtedness author-
ized herein shall be reduced by the amount specified herein for said
abandoned project.