814                              Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 401

gency Planning Agency shall be part of the Department of Public
Safety and Correctional Services. The Maryland Civil Defense and
Emergency Planning Agency shall have the powers, duties, respon-
sibilities and functions provided in the laws of this State for the
Maryland Civil Defense Agency. All references in this Code, in any
other laws of this State, or in ordinances, resolutions, rules, regula-
tions, legal actions, directives, or documents, to the Maryland Civil
Defense Agency shall be deemed to mean the Maryland Civil Defense
and Emergency Planning Agency. From and after July 1, 1970, all
rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions heretofore conferred
upon or exercised by the Maryland Civil Defense Agency shall be
transferred to and, be exercised by the Maryland Civil Defense and
Emergency Planning Agency, subject to the authority of the Secre-
tary of Public Safety and Correctional Services as set forth in Sec-
tions 204A, 204B and 204C of this Article or elsewhere in this Code.

(e)    The Advisory Board of the Department of Correction, the
Advisory Board of the Department of Parole and Probation, and the
Coordinating Council for Correctional Services, are all hereby
abolished.

(f)    The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
shall not have a Board of Review, and Section 3C of this Article
shall be inapplicable to the Department of Public Safety and Correc-
tional Services.

204E.

(a) The Advisory Board for Correction, Parole and Probation
is established as part of the Department of Public Safety and Correc-
tional Services. The Deputy Secretary for Correctional Services, the
Chairman of the Board of Parole, the Director of Parole and Pro-
bation, and the Commissioner of Correction shall be ex officio mem-
bers of the Advisory Board, and shall be entitled to all of the rights
and privileges of membership except the right to vote on matters
coming before the Board. In addition to the ex officio members, the
Advisory Board shall have thirteen regular members who shall be
appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Serv-
ices, with the approval of the Governor, for terms of four years each.
Any of the regular members may be removed by the Secretary, with
the approval of the Governor, at any time for good cause shown. All
seven persons who are regular members of the Advisory Board of the
Department of Parole and Probation and six of the persons who are
regular members of the Advisory Board of the Department of Correc-
tion (but not including the person who is the Chairman) as of June
30, 1970, shall on July 1, 1970 become regular members of the
Advisory Board for Correction, Parole and Probation; and each such
person shall continue to serve as a regular member of the Advisory
Board for Correction, Parole and Probation until the expiration of
the term which he had been appointed to either the Advisory Board
of the Department of Parole and Probation or the Advisory Board of
Correction; and thereafter his successor shall be appointed for a
term of four years. The Governor shall name which of the thirteen
regular members of the Advisory Board for Correction, Parole and
Probation shall be Chairman as of July 1, 1970, and thereafter the
Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services, with the ap-
proval of the Governor, shall name one of the regular members as
Chairman from time to time.