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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 13

be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 41 - Governor-Executive and Administrative
Departments

258.

[(a)] The Division of Economic Development is
established and continued as the same Department of Economic
Development hitherto existing. The Division of Economic
Development shall be part of the Department of Economic and
Community Development. The Division shall have the powers,
duties, responsibilities and functions provided in the laws
of this State for the Department of Economic Development.
All references in this Code, in any other laws of this
State, or in ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations,
legal actions, directives, or documents to the Department of
Economic Development, shall be deemed to mean the Division
of Economic Development. From and after September 1, 1970,
all rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions
heretofore conferred upon or exercised by the Department of
Economic Development shall be transferred to and be
exercised by the Division of Economic Development, subject
to the authority of the Secretary of Economic and Community
Development as set forth in this Code. The Division of
Economic Development of the Department of Economic and
Community Development shall have the general purpose of
advancing the economic welfare of the people through
programs and activities to develop in a proper manner the
State's natural resources and economic opportunities and to
promote and encourage the location of new industries and
businesses in the State of Maryland as well as encouraging
the expansion of existing industries and other matters
intended to foster and develop gainful employment and the
pursuit of happiness of all who now are or who may hereafter
be residents of this State.

[(b) To advise and assist in carrying out fully and
effectively all the provisions of this subheading, the
advisory powers and duties of. the Division of Economic
Development shall vest in and be exercised by a Maryland
Economic Development Advisory Commission, to consist of
twelve members who shall be appointed by the Secretary of
Economic and Community Development, with the approval of the
Governor.

The members shall represent a cross section of the
economic and geographic composition of the State, and shall
be selected because of their known experience and interest
in the development of natural resources and industrial
opportunities from the following areas of the State:

Two members from counties comprising the Eastern Shore;
two members from the counties comprising southern Maryland;
two members from the counties comprising central Maryland;
two members from the counties comprising western Maryland;
two members from Baltimore City; and two members appointed
from the State at large.