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30.

It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to aid and
assist employers in carrying out their responsibilities under Section 29 and to
suggest and recommend to employers [and] OR groups of employers methods and
procedures by which they may develop safety programs to carry out such
responsibilities. Within the Division of Labor and Industry, there shall be a Safety
Engineering and Education Service, which on behalf of and under the
Commissioner of Labor and Industry shall study, analyze and investigate into the
causes of industrial and occupational accidents and formulate, plan and conduct
programs and courses designed to reduce such accidents. The Safety Engineering
and Education Service shall have such clerks, and other employees and technical
assistants as shall be provided from time to time in the budget. The Commissioner
shall appoint inspectors to be designated safety inspectors, who shall be qualified
and trained in occupational safety, and who shall be charged with responsibility for
enforcement of safety codes in construction and other hazardous industries in the
State at large, with salaries and travel expenses provided in the annual budget. The
Commissioner shall further appoint inspectors, who shall be technically qualified,
and who shall be charged with responsibility for enforcement of safety codes
relative to amusement rides or devices and temporary and/or permanent structures
at carnivals, fairs and amusement parks or other areas where such rides, devices or
structures may be situated. These inspectors shall also be charged with
responsibility for enforcement of safety codes for passenger and freight elevators in
permanent installations and workmen's and material hoists on construction
projects, with salaries and travel expenses of such inspectors provided in the annual
budget. Upon the request of any company licensed to insure and insuring elevators
in this State, the Commissioner of Labor and Industry is empowered and
authorized to deputize qualified inspectors of said company as special elevator
inspectors and shall formulate rules and regulations defining the authority of those
deputized and the reporting of inspections made by said inspectors. Such special
elevator inspectors shall receive no salary from, nor shall any of their expenses be
paid by, the State. All full-time employees of the Safety Engineering and
Education Service shall be subject generally to the provisions of Article 64A of the
Code, title "Merit System."

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved April 26, 1973.

CHAPTER 101
(Senate Bill 674)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 354(a) of Article 48A
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume, 1972
Supplement), title "Insurance Code," subtitle "Nonprofit Health Service
Plans," to remove the limitation on the application of this subtitle to certain
corporations organized under the provisions of Article 23 of the Code of Public
Laws of Maryland.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 354(a) of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume, 1972 Supplement), title "Insurance Code,"