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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 601

6 MONTHS FROM the order of commitment, the Administration
shall review the progress of the individual to determine his
rehabilitation and advise the committing court whether care
should be continued. The court then may continue the
commitment or terminate it. THE ADMINISTRATION SHALL APPLY
FOR AND RECEIVE AN ORDER FROM THE COMMITTING COURT APPROVING
FURTHER CARE AT THE END OF EACH 6 MONTH PERIOD THEREAFTER.
However, a commitment may not exceed 5 years. The court
also may terminate a commitment and refer the drug addict to
the court of his criminal conviction for the resumption of
the pending criminal proceedings.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 602

(House Bill 88)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Maryland Eastern Shore
Oncology Treatment Unit

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt
in the amount of $2,000,000, the proceeds to be used to
assist in the design, planning, construction,
renovation, and equipping of a regional oncology
treatment unit at Peninsula General Hospital Medical
Center, Salisbury, Maryland, subject to the provision
of up to a certain amount as a matching fund for the
same purpose; and providing generally for the issue and
sale of bonds evidencing the loan.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

(1) The Board of Public Works may borrow money and
incur indebtedness on behalf of the State of Maryland
through a State loan to be known as the Maryland Eastern
Shore Oncology Treatment Unit Loan of 1981 in the aggregate
principal amount of $2,000,000. This loan shall be
evidenced by the issuance and sale of State general
obligation bonds authorized by a resolution of the Board of
Public Works and issued, sold and delivered in accordance
with the provisions of §§ 19 to 23 of Article 31 of the