HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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this Act affects the term of office of an appointed or
elected member of any department, board, commission,
committee, agency of or other unit. A person who is a
member of such a unit on the effective date of this Act
shall remain a member for the balance of the term to which
appointed or elected, unless the member sooner dies,
resigns, or is removed pursuant to the provisions of law.

SECTION 8. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That except as
expressly provided to the contrary in this Act, any
transaction affected by or flowing from any change of
nomenclature or any statute there amended, repealed, or
transferred, and validly entered into before the effective
date and every right, duty, or interest flowing from the
statute remains valid after the effective date 'and may be
terminated, completed, consummated, or enforced as required
or permitted by any statute amended, repealed, or
transferred by this Act as though the repeal, amendment, or
transfer had not occurred. If the change in nomenclature
involves a change in name or designation of any State
agency, the successor agency shall be considered in all
respects as having the powers and obligations granted the
former agency.

SECTION 9. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the
continuity of every department, board, commission,
committee, agency or other unit affected by this Act is
retained. The personnel, records, files, furniture and
fixtures and other properties and all appropriations,
credits, assets, liabilities, and obligations of each
retained unit are continued as the personnel, records,
files, furniture, fixtures, properties, appropriations,
credits, assets, liabilities, and obligations of the agency
under the laws enacted by this Act.

SECTION 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect on July 1, 1980.

CHAPTER 34

(House Bill 640)

AN ACT concerning

Juvenile Causes - Petitions

FOR the purpose of altering the time within which a petition
alleging juvenile delinquency shall be prepared and
filed by a State's attorney Attorney; and declaring
this Act to be an emergency measure to take effect from
the date of its passage.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,