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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 736

CHAPTER 736

(Senate Bill 880)

AN ACT concerning

Public Service Commission - Opportunity for Judicial Review

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the staff of the Public
Service Commission from exercising the right to seek
judicial review of final decisions or orders of the
Commission.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

Section 90

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

90.

Any party or any person in interest, including the
people's counsel, BUT NOT INCLUDING THE STAFF, dissatisfied
by a final decision or order of the Commission whether
affirmative or negative in form is entitled to judicial
review as provided in this subtitle. For the purposes of
this subtitle, the Secretary of Natural Resources has
standing to seek judicial review of the Commission's final
decision or order made pursuant to Article 78, § 54A and §
54B relative to the environmental aspects of power plant
siting and the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene has
standing to seek judicial review of the Commission's final
decision or order made pursuant to Article 78, § 54H. Where
the registration of any motor vehicle carrier is suspended
or revoked by the Motor Vehicle Administration on order of
the Commission, the order of the Commission, and not the
action of the Motor Vehicle Administration, shall be subject
to review.

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

Approved May 27, 1980.