HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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SECTION 2. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 27, 1980.

CHAPTER 735

(Senate Bill 876)

AN ACT concerning

Public Service Commission - Court for Review

FOR the purpose of providing that proceedings for review of
orders of the Public Service Commission shall be
instituted in the circuit court in equity for any
county within which operations are carried out.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

Section 91(a)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

91.

(a) Proceedings for review under § 90 of this article
shall be instituted in the circuit court IN EQUITY for any
county within which operations are carried on by the public
service company involved, or in any equity court in
Baltimore City. If more than one proceeding to review an
order of the Commission is instituted, the court may, upon
motion of either party, transfer the proceeding to any other
court having jurisdiction. If a rehearing by the Commission
is duly applied for, proceedings for judicial review may be
filed after the service of the decision of the Commission
denying the hearing The Commission may be a party to such
appeal.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 27, 1980.