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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 729

CHAPTER 729

(Senate Bill 779)

AN ACT concerning

Public Service Commission - Membership of
Commission and Tenure

FOR the purpose of removing the provision allowing a
commissioner to become a State resident upon taking
office; requiring the members of the Public Service
Commission to serve full time; clarifying the selection
of the chairman of the Commission; and providing for
the term and tenure of members of the Public Service
Commission.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

Section 5 and 6

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Replacement Volume and 1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

5.

The Commission consists of five commissioners,
appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the
Senate, one of whom shall be the chairman. The Commission
shall be broadly representative of the public interest, and
shall be composed of persons with diverse training or
experience. Each commissioner upon taking office shall be or
promptly become a resident and registered voter of Maryland
and shall remain such during his term of office. [Three of
the commissioners shall serve full time. The remaining two
commissioners need not be full-time.] EACH COMMISSIONER
SHALL SERVE FULL TIME. The office of chairman shall be
filled initially, at the expiration of each term, and upon
an earlier vacancy in the office[,] by a person nominated as
such by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.
Commissioners [shall be] ARE eligible for reappointment.

6.

[(a)] The term of each commissioner [shall be six] IS 5
years [from] AND SHALL BEGIN ON the expiration of his
predecessor's term. A commissioner, including the chairman,