MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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illegal. The appeal shall be heard by the court without
a jury or with a jury if either party so requests. The
State Board of Education may be a party to the appeal.
If the court affirms the action of the State Board of
Education in revoking a certificate, the revocation of
the certificate shall thereupon become effective, if
previously stayed. Either party has the right of appeal
to the Court of SPECIAL Appeals from any decision of the
court on the question of denial or revocation of a
certificate.

SECTION 18. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That

Sections 4 2, 93(b), and 98 of Article 78 - Public Service
Commission Law, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1975
Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and they are
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 78 — Public Service Commission Law

42.

Within forty-five days after the conclusion of a
hearing held under the provisions of §§ 39 to 44, the
Commission shall issue an order dismissing the complaint
or requiring compliance with a regulation of the
Commission. The Commission may, in its discretion,
allow the employer not to exceed forty—five days within
which to comply with an order. Any person aggrieved by
the order of the Commission may appeal to the circuit
court of the county or of Baltimore City in which the
place of employment is located, and in such action the
Commission may be a party. The decision of the circuit
court may be appealed to the Court of SPECIAL Appeals.

93.

(b) All proceedings before the courts (except the
Court of SPECIAL Appeals OR THE COURT OF APPEALS) under
this article, including all those prosecuted by the
Commission, all those to which the Commission or the
people's counsel has become a party, and all those in
which any question arises under this article, or which
concern any rule, regulation, order or other action of
the Commission, shall be preferred over all other civil
causes except election causes in all the courts of this
State, irrespective of their position on the dockets; and
the courts shall always be open for the trial of such
proceedings.

98.

An aggrieved party may obtain further review of any
final judgment in any proceeding brought pursuant to this
subtitle, by appeal to the Court of SPECIAL Appeals.
Such appeal shall be taken in the manner provided by law
for appeals from equity courts in other civil cases.