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COMMISSION, OR ANY OTHER MEMBERS AS THE BOARD MAY DEEM
NECESSARY OR DESIRABLE. THE ADVISORY COUNCIL MAY REVIEW AND
RECOMMEND RATES, POLICIES, AND PLANS FOR THE MAINTENANCE,
DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OR ESTABLISHMENT OF ANY WATER,
SEWERAGE, OR DRAINAGE SYSTEM EXISTING OR TO BE CONSTRUCTED
OR ESTABLISHED IN FREDERICK COUNTY.

10A-33.

(A)    ALL ACTS AND PARTS OF ACTS INCONSISTENT WITH THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER ARE REPEALED TO THE EXTENT OF
THEIR INCONSISTENCY, PROVIDING THAT NOTHING HEREIN CONTAINED
SHALL BE TAKEN AS RESTRICTING ANY CONTROL WHICH THE STATE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE AND THE STATE
DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES ARE EMPOWERED TO EXERCISE
WITHIN FREDERICK COUNTY.

(B)    THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER ARE SEVERABLE, AND
IT IS THE INTENTION TO CONFER THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF THE
POWERS HEREIN PROVIDED FOR, AND IF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS CHAPTER SHALL BE HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY ANY COURT OF
COMPETENT JURISDICTION, THE DECISION OF SUCH COURT SHALL NOT
AFFECT OR IMPAIR ANY OF THE REMAINING PROVISIONS OF THIS
CHAPTER. IT IS HEREBY DECLARED TO BE THE LEGISLATIVE INTENT
THAT THIS CHAPTER WOULD HAVE BEEN ADOPTED HAD SUCH
UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION NOT BEEN INCLUDED THEREIN.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 724

(House Bill 795)

AN ACT concerning

Mental Hygiene Laws — Court Ordered
Evaluations in Criminal Cases

FOR the purpose of abbreviating the time—within which
criminal competency examinations are to be conducted by
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and for the
purpose of specifying the time within which persons
undergoing custodial examinations must be returned to
the jurisdiction of the court making provision for the
confinement of criminal defendants that remain in