2620                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 296

contracts and agreements on projects relating to their areas
of prime responsibility.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 297

(Senate Bill 798)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Conservation Corps

FOR the purpose of creating a Maryland Conservation Corps in
the Department of Natural Resources for a certain
purpose; defining certain terms; providing for
alternative sources of funding for the Corps; requiring
the Department of Natural Resources to use certain
funding for the Corps; and requiring the Department of
Natural Resources to adopt rules . and regulations to
carry out the purposes of this Act.

BY adding to

Article - Natural Resources

Section 5-218

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Natural Resources

5-218.

(A)  IN THIS SECTION, "CORPS" MEANS THE MARYLAND
CONSERVATION CORPS.

(B)  THERE IS A MARYLAND CONSERVATION CORPS IN THE
DEPARTMENT.

(C)  THE CORPS SHALL PROVIDE MEANINGFUL AND PRODUCTIVE
EMPLOYMENT FOR AVAILABLE MANPOWER OF THIS STATE IN THE FIELD
OF DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE STATE'S NATURAL
RESOURCES.