HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(iii) The establishment and implementation
of regional programs and agreements for the purposes of
coordinating the energy resource programs and actions of the
State with those of the federal government and of other
states and localities.

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 March 14, 1980.

CHAPTER 31

(House Bill 1062 of 1979)

AN ACT concerning

Mental Hygiene Administration and Mental Retardation
Administration Facilities - Transfers

FOR the purpose of allowing the transfer of certain persons
from one type of residential facility to another in
certain circumstances and upon a certain request; and
establishing a procedure for resolving disputes between
the Mental Hygiene Administration and the Mental
Retardation Administration as to transfers.

BY adding to

Article 59 - Mental Hygiene

Section 17A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 59A - Mental Retardation

Section 15A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: