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LAWS OF MARYLAND

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SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDERED, That, unless
specifically disapproved within 50 days after submission, by
a resolution of disapproval concurred in by a majority vote
of all members of either House of the General Assembly, this
Executive Order shall take effect.

GIVEN Under my Hand and the
Great Seal of Maryland, in
the City of Annapolis,
this 17th day of
January, 1980.

Harry Hughes
Governor of Maryland
ATTEST:

Fred L. Wineland
Secretary of State

Executive Order effective March 7, 1980 under Article
II, Section 24, Constitution of Maryland.

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EXECUTIVE ORDER
NO. 01.01.1980.04

Submitted to the President of the Senate of Maryland.

Date: January 17, 1980

AN EXECUTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO ARTICLE II,
SECTION 24, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND

AN EXECUTIVE ORDER concerning

Reorganization of State Government -
Environmental Area

FOR the purpose of transferring certain environmental
regulatory functions presently within the Department of
Natural Resources to the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene; to direct the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene to administer and enforce the
transferred functions so as to preserve, conserve,
enhance, and perpetuate the public health, environment,
and natural resources of the State; to specify that the
environmental regulatory functions to be transferred
from the Department of Natural Resources to the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are those