HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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IF THE SECRETARY BELIEVES THAT A PERSON IS VIOLATING
ANY PROVISION OF THIS SUBTITLE OR OF A RULE OR REGULATION
ADOPTED UNDER THIS SUBTITLE, THE SECRETARY SHALL HAVE THE
PERSON SERVED WITH A WRITTEN ORDER THAT DIRECTS THE PERSON
SERVED TO ABATE THE VIOLATION WITHIN A TIME SPECIFIED IN THE
ORDER.

(B)  RIGHT TO HEARING AND COUNSEL.

THE SECRETARY SHALL GIVE ANY PERSON SERVED WITH AN
ORDER UNDER THIS SECTION AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A HEARING BEFORE
THE SECRETARY. THE PERSON SERVED MAY BE REPRESENTED AT THE
HEARING BY COUNSEL.

(C)  ACTION AFTER HEARING.

AFTER A HEARING UNDER THIS SECTION, THE SECRETARY MAY
AFFIRM, MODIFY, OR WITHDRAW THE ORDER.

(D)  PROHIBITION.

AFTER THE TIME SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER FOR ABATING THE
VIOLATION, A PERSON WHO IS SERVED WITH AN ORDER UNDER THIS
SECTION MAY NOT VIOLATE THAT ORDER.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived
without substantive change from former Article
43, § 201.

In ' subsection (a) of this section, the reference
to rules and regulations is new language added
for clarity.

Subsection (c) of this section is new language
added to state expressly that which formerly was
only implied in the law.

The former reference to violations of subsection
(d) of this section being tried in Maryland
District Court is deleted as unnecessary in light
of other, independent provisions of law.

GENERAL REVISOR'S NOTE:

Former Article 43, §§ 173, 176, 198, 497, the reference
to enforcement in the second clause of the first sentence of
§ 184, the first clause of the first sentence of § 194, and
the first sentence of § 586, all of which related to the
duty of the Secretary to enforce parts of this title, are
deleted as unnecessary in light of § 1-301 of this article.

The third sentence of former Article 43, § 194, which
included specific references to enforcing the provisions of
Article 27, §§ 315 through 318, 456, and 457, HO §§ 12-310,
12-501, 12-502, 12-505, 12-506, 12-701, and 12-702, and laws