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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 21

Md. 481 (1927) and Grooms v. LaVale Zoning Board,
27 Md. App. 266 (1975).

In subsection (a)(2)(i) of this section, the
reference to the "Department at large" is
substituted for the reference to the former State
Department of Health. See the General Revisor's
Note to this article.

In subsection (a)(2)(ii) of this section, the
reference to the "Mental Hygiene Administration"
is substituted for the obsolete reference to the
"State Department of Mental Hygiene".

In subsection (a)(2)(v) of this section, the
reference to the "State Social Services
Administration" is substituted for the obsolete
reference to the "State Department of Social
Services".

Subsection (c)(5) of this section is revised in
standard language used to state a limitation on
successive terms. Thus, the word "full" is added
to modify the reference to "3-year terms". This
addition resolves any ambiguity that a member
appointed to serve the remainder of a vacant term
might be limited to that term and then only 1
full term. Under this revision, a member who is
appointed to the remainder of a term is eligible
for reappointment to 2 additional full terms.

Similarly, the phrase "may not be reappointed for
3 years after completion of those terms" is
substituted for the ambiguous reference to "the
term immediately following the second of those
terms", which could be interpreted as a reference
to a 3-year period or only to the specific 3-year
term of that member's successor. The latter
interpretation would permit appointment of the
member to succeed some other member. This
substitution is patterned after the limitation on
successive terms for members of county advisory
councils on alcoholism, in § 8-313 of this
article.

The former, specific references to the initial
terms of the members, in the second sentence of
former Article 52A, § 3(a) and the entire third
sentence of (a-1), are deleted as obsolete. The
continuing stagger created under those provisions
is covered now under subsection (c)(2) of this
section.

The fifth sentence of former Article 52A, §
3(a-l), which, as to the 6 additional members,