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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 240

agency, the successor agency shall be considered in all
respects as having the powers and obligations granted the
former agency.

SECTION 9. 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.

SECTION 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That except as
expressly provided to the contrary in this Act, any person
licensed, registered, permitted, or certified under any
statute amended, repealed, or transferred by this Act is
considered for all purposes to be licensed, registered,
permitted, or certified under this Act for the duration of
the term for which the license, registration, permit, or
certification was issued, and may renew that authorization
in accordance with the appropriate renewal provisions of
this Act. Except as expressly provided to the contrary in
this Act, any person who was originally licensed,
registered, permitted, or certified under a provision of law
that has been deleted by this Act as obsolete, continues to
meet the requirements to the same extent as if that
provision had not been deleted.

SECTION 11. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect on July 1, 1982.

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 241

(House Bill 429)

AN ACT concerning

Air Quality Control - Permits
Health - Environmental - Corrective

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene to require a permit for the burning of
any waste combustible fluid as fuel by any stationary
source correcting the revision of certain Health -