MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            1213

MARYLAND, That Section 10 of Article 64A - Merit System,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement
Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 64A — Merit System

10.

The Secretary of Personnel may appoint his employees
and may incur expenses for office rent, printing,
advertising, stationery, salaries of employees and other
expenses incidental to the administration of this
article, within the limits of the amounts appropriated
therefor by the General Assembly in the budget bill.

The employees of the Secretary of Personnel, except
as provided in Article 41 of this Code or otherwise
provided by law, shall be included in the classified
service.

The Secretary of Personnel shall make an annual
report on or before January 1st in each year to the
Governor AND BY JANUARY 15 OF EACH YEAR TO THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY concerning his work and proceedings AND
INCLUDING STATISTICS AND RANKING OF THIS DATA AS TO
MINORITY GROUP EMPLOYEES COMPARED TO ALL EMPLOYEES IN ALL
JOB CATEGORIES and shall include therein any
recommendations he deems advisable in regard to
conditions in service of the state—classified and
unclassified. All rules of the Secretary of Personnel
shall be open to public inspection at the office of the
Secretary.

Wherever in this article the words "Commissioner" or
"Secretary" appear, they shall be deemed to mean and
shall refer to the Secretary of Personnel; and wherever
in this Code the words "State Employment Commissioner" or
"Commissioner of State Employment and Registration"
appear, they shall be deemed to mean and shall refer to
the Secretary of Personnel.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 8, 1975.

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