MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                               617

same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 28, 1974.

CHAPTER 99
(House Bill 607)
AN ACT concerning

Public Service Commission Law — People's Counsel

FOR the purpose of empowering the People's Counsel to
appear before the Interstate Commerce Commission in
certain cases, and providing that this Act is to be
an emergency bill.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 78 — Public Service Commission Law

Section 15

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 15 of Article 78 - Public Service
Commission Law, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 78 — Public Service Commission Law
15.

The people's counsel shall have the following powers
and duties:

(1) He shall appear before the Commission, [[THE
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, ]] and the courts on
behalf of the interests of the public in general in any
matter or proceeding, of which the Commission has
original jurisdiction and in which he may deem the public
interest to be involved, including but not limited to
proceedings with regard to the rates, service, or
practices of any public service company or any violation
of the provisions of this article. He shall have, in
such appearance, all the rights of counsel for a party in
interest, including but not limited to the right to