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other unit. A person who is a member of such a unit on the
effective date of this Act shall remain a member for the
balance of the term to which he was appointed, unless he
sooner dies, resigns, or is removed pursuant to the

provisions of law.

SECTION 15. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That except as
expressly provided to the contrary in this Act, any
transaction affected by or flowing from any change of
nomenclature or any statute here amended, repealed, or
transferred, and validly entered into before the effective
date and every right, duty, or interest flowing from the
statute remains valid after the effective date and may be
terminated, completed, consummated, or enforced as required
or permitted by any statute amended, repealed, or
transferred by this Act as though the repeal, amendment, or
transfer had not occurred. If the change in nomenclature
involves a change in name or designation of any State
agency, the successor agency shall be considered in all
respects as having the powers and obligations granted the
former agency.

SECTION 16. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the
continuity of every department, board, commission,
committee, agency or other unit affected by this Act is
retained. The personnel, records, files, furniture and
fixtures and other properties and all appropriations,
credits, assets, liabilities, and obligations of each
retained unit are continued as the personnel, records,
files, furniture, fixtures, properties, appropriations,
credits, assets, liabilities, and obligations of the agency
under the laws enacted by this Act.

SECTION 17. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect on July 1, 1978.

Approved April 3, 1978.

CHAPTER 23

(Senate Bill 805)

AN ACT concerning

Income Tax — Itemized Deductions

FOR the purpose of authorizing a Maryland income taxpayer to
itemize his deductions on his State income tax return,
regardless of his election to use the standard
deduction in determining his federal taxable income, as
if he had elected to itemize his deductions for federal
purposes; providing for a reduction to the amount of
itemized deductions; providing that the deductions may
not exceed a certain amount; providing that this Act