Ch. 449                          MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                               919

the Secretary by contract to provide medical or. health care personnel and
facilities for such deficient areas; and to authorize that medical or health care
facilities be provided by the State and local government capital budget.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 1F of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume), title "Health," subtitle "Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

1F.

The jurisdiction, powers and duties of the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene are as follows:

a.  To establish general policy for the environmental, physical and mental health
services of the State and its subdivisions.

b.  To fully discharge the powers conferred upon him by the provisions of this
article or other provisions of this Code.

c.   To give general supervision to the administration of the health laws of
Maryland and each county and city thereof.

d.  To formulate and promulgate, with and on the advice of the commissioners
of health and mental hygiene, rules, regulations, and standards for the purpose of
promoting and guiding the development of the environmental, physical and mental
hygiene services of the State and its subdivisions. To enforce rules and regulations
promulgated by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

e.   To establish policy for the operations of the departments of health and
mental hygiene to the degree necessary to discharge their responsibilities, and by
regulation or written directive to assign and reassign functions, staff, funds,
responsibilities, duties, powers, and obligations with the advice of the
commissioners of health and mental hygiene, from the Department of Health to
the Department of Mental Hygiene, or from the Department of Mental Hygiene to
the Department of Health, or from either of said departments to the office of the
Secretary, or from the office of the Secretary to either of said departments.

F.     UPON HIS OWN INITIATIVE, OR UPON THE REQUEST OF A
LOCAL         COMMUNITY         OR         VOLUNTARY         NON-PROFIT
ORGANIZATION, TO SURVEY AND IDENTIFY GEOGRAPHICAL
AREAS WITH SUBSTANTIAL DEFICIENCIES IN GENERAL MEDICAL
OR HEALTH CARE FACILITIES OR SERVICES.

G.          TO GIVE ASSISTANCE, AID AND COUNSEL TO LOCAL
COMMUNITIES AND VOLUNTARY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
TO ESTABLISH MEDICAL OR HEALTH CARE. FACILITIES AND FOR
THE RECRUITMENT OF MEDICAL OR HEALTH CARE. PERSONNEL
FOR THOSE AREAS OF THE STATE WITH A SUBSTANTIAL
DEFICIENCY IN MEDICAL FACILITIES OR SERVICES. IN
COOPERATING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS,
THE SECRETARY SHALL SEEK THE ASSISTANCE OF APPROPRIATE
COUNTY AND STATE [[MEDICAL SOCIETIES]] GROUPS.

H. IN THE EVENT OF THE FAILURE OF A COOPERATIVE EFFORT
BY AND BETWEEN THE SECRETARY AND A LOCAL COMMUNITY OR
VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION TO ESTABLISH MEDICAL OR HEALTH
CARE FACILITIES OR TO RECRUIT MEDICAL OR HEALTH CARE.