MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                               603

[said] [[clerk]][,] [[either]] shall deposit [the said]
[[THESE certified]] [copies] THE STATEMENTS in the
nearest post office, addressed respectively to the
Governor and to the State Administrative Board of
Election Laws, or shall actually deliver [the said]
[[THESE certified]] THE [copies] STATEMENTS to the office
of the Governor and the office of the State
Administrative Board of Election Laws.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved March 28, 1974.

CHAPTER 92
(House Bill 440)
AN ACT concerning

Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact —
Scope of Applicability

FOR the purpose of adding new Article 15 to the
Interstate Civil Defense and Disaster Compact to
enlarge the scope of the disasters to which the
Compact applies; providing that this Article shall
be in effect only in the States which have enacted
it; providing for the effect of this Article on the
other provisions of the Compact; providing for the
furnishing of aid under the Interstate Civil Defense
and Disaster Compact; and generally relating to the
scope of this Compact.

BY adding to

Article 41 — Governor—Executive and Administrative

Departments

Section 453 (Article 15)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 453 (Article 15) be and it is
hereby added to Article 41 — Governor—Executive and
Administrative Departments, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) to
read as follows: