MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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CHAPTER 21
(Senate Bill 204)

AN ACT concerning

Executive and Legislative Authority — Energy

FOR the purpose of extending, until a certain date,
certain powers of the Governor in energy crisis
emergency situations.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article 41 — Governor—Executive and

Administrative Departments
Section 15B(c-1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 15B(c-1) of Article 41
Governor—Executive and Administrative Departments of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and
1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 41 — Governor—Executive and
Administrative Departments

15B.

(c—1) As used in this subtitle, but only until
[March 15, 1975] [[JUNE 30]] MARCH 15, 1976, "crisis",
"disaster", "catastrophe" and "or similar public
emergency" also refers to a situation where the health,
safety, or welfare of the citizens of this State are
threatened by reason of an actual or impending acute
shortage in usable energy resources. Upon reasonable
apprehension that such a crisis, disaster, catastrophe,
or similar public emergency exists, the Governor may
proclaim a state of emergency, in which event the
Governor's orders, rules, and regulations, promulgated as
provided in this subtitle, may also include, by way of
further enumerated example rather than limitation, and
notwithstanding any other provision or limitation of
State or local law, provisions for the establishment and
implementation of programs, controls, standards,