MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                           2305

AN ACT concerning

Juvenile Services — Advisory Board

FOR the purpose of changing the Meeting schedule
requirements of the Advisory Board of Juvenile
Services.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article 52A — Juvenile Services

Section 3(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 3(b) of Article 52A - Juvenile
Services, 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hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read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 52A — Juvenile Services

3.

(b) The Secretary of Health and Rental Hygiene shall
designate one member of the Advisory Board to serve as
chairman. The Board shall meet regularly on the call of
the chairman, not less often than [once a month] TEN
TIMES A YEAR. One of the members of the Board shall
serve as secretary, upon designation by the chairman, and
shall keep and preserve full and accurate minutes of the
meetings. The members of the Advisory Board shall
receive no compensation for their services, but shall be
paid the reasonable expenses necessary for the discharge
of their official duties. The Advisory Board shall act
in a general consultative and advisory capacity to the
Director of the Department of Juvenile Services with
regard to the several aspects of the State's program of
juvenile services. Included in this responsibility is
the duty to recommend to the Director of the Department
of Juvenile Services policies and programs to improve the
State's juvenile services. The Advisory Board also shall
participate in interpreting the objectives of the
Department to the public and in planning for the
development and utilization of all available resources
for the promotion of needs of the Department.