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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 637

principal departments and for the transfer of
departments, agencies, other units of State government
programs, services, and responsibilities between and
among such departments. The Governor shall recommend to
the General Assembly the placement of all new programs,
departments, and other instrumentalities, within the
appropriate principal department, and he shall have the
authority to assign new units of the State government,
departments and programs to such departments at the time
of creation unless assigned by law. Nonstatutory units
of the State government and programs may be assigned to
the appropriate principal department by the Governor.
ANY APPROPRIATED FUNDS INVOLVED IN A TRANSFER OR
ASSIGNMENT UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION MAY BE
TRANSFERRED BY APPROVED BUDGET AMENDMENT.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article,
the Governor may, when circumstances dictate, establish
task forces for programs which cut across departmental
lines. This shall be limited to programs which require
integration of services so as to achieve a governmental
program which cannot efficiently be performed through
simple cooperation between departments. Such task
forces may exist for not more than one year unless their
existence is specifically continued by the Governor.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved May 15, 1975.

CHAPTER 638
(Senate Bill 970)

AN ACT concerning

Workmen's Compensation

FOR the purpose of making certain survival benefits of
workmen's compensation inapplicable to the
Subsequent Injury Fund; changing the conditions
under which benefits from the Subsequent Injury Fund
shall be payable; correcting an error; deleting a
certain date and clarifying that a certain
subsection shall not be construed or applied in a
certain manner; making this Act applicable only to
injuries occurring on and after July 1, 1975; and
relating generally to the Workmen's Compensation