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(e) [Following their appointment, all judges shall
appear at the office of the board.] Each person shall take
and subscribe to the oath prescribed in Article [1, § 6] I,
§ 9 of the Constitution of Maryland. The oath shall be
taken and subscribed to before one of the members of the
board, or any clerks especially designated by the board for
this purpose, and commissions shall thereupon be issued to
the judges. In the discretion of the board, the oath may be
taken and subscribed to upon forms to be supplied by the
board [before any officer authorized by law to administer
oaths;], SIGNED UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY, and upon receipt
of the form, duly executed, the board shall issue a
commission therefor.

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 April 2, 1982.

CHAPTER 21

(House Bill 200)

AN ACT concerning

Health - General

FOR the purpose of adding a new Article to the Annotated
Code of Maryland, to be designated and known as the
"Health - General Article", to revise, restate, and
recodify the laws of this State relating and pertaining
to general health matters, including matters relating
to mental retardation, to mental hygiene, to
nonretarded developmental disabilities, to incompetence
and insanity in criminal cases, to juvenile services,
to general day care for children, elderly individuals,
and medically handicapped adults, to health care
facilities, including hospitals, related institutions,
home health agencies, chronic disease centers, health
maintenance organizations, and centers for compulsive
gamblers, to misuse of drugs and alcohol, to physical
fitness, to disease prevention, to hereditary
disorders, to high blood pressure, to kidney disease,
to laboratories, including public health and clinical
laboratories, medical laboratories, tissue banks, and
medical test units, to vital records and statistics, to