HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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contrary by any person licensed under this subtitle, or his
agents, assistants or employees is prohibited.] Nothing in
this section shall be interpreted to prohibit the use or
consumption of a burial or funeral casket before or after
cremation, or in the course of cremation, if the person
making the funeral arrangements so decides.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Ch. ____, Acts of 1981, which enacted

the Health Occupations Article, also amended this
section to delete its present second sentence.
That sentence now appears in HO § 6-505. This
section also was renumbered to be in the subtitle
"Cremation".

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the
Revisor's Notes and catchlines contained in this Act are not
law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part
of this Act.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That nothing in
this Act affects the term of office of an appointed or
elected member of any department, board, commission,
committee, agency, 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 under provisions of law.

SECTION 7. 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nomenclature or any statute there amended, repealed, or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or permitted by any statute amended, repealed, or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 8. 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,
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 unit
under the laws enacted by this Act.