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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 393

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement 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

8-302.

Article I

1.

The Chesapeake Bay Commission, hereinafter designated
as "Commission", is hereby created.

6.

(A) The Commission members shall serve as the
governing body of the Commission, and, except as hereinafter
provided, shall exercise and discharge all powers,
functions, and responsibilities assigned to the Commission.
The Commission shall provide for the organization of
internal procedures of the Commission and to this end shall
adopt suitable bylaws. The Commission shall have a chairman
and a vice chairman, chosen by the respective delegation,
whose offices shall alternate annually between the signatory
states and may at no time be held by members from the same
signatory. A member from the State of Maryland shall serve
as chairman for each year whose last numerical digit is even
and during that year a member from Virginia shall be vice
chairman. A member from the Commonwealth of Virginia shall
serve as chairman for each year whose last numerical digit
is odd and during that year a member from Maryland shall
serve as vice chairman. The Commission may maintain one or
more offices for the transaction of its business. The
Commission may, without regard to the civil service or the
laws of any signatory relative to public officers and
employees, create and abolish offices, employments, and
positions as it deems necessary for the purposes of the
Commission, affix and provide for the duties, conditions of
employment, qualifications, appointment, removal, term,
compensation, and other rights and benefits of the
Commission's officers and employees, and shall appoint the
principal officers of the Commission and allocate among them
administrative functions, powers, and duties. WITH THE
PERMISSION OF THE COMMISSION, A COMMISSION EMPLOYEE MAY
ELECT THE STATUS OF AN EMPLOYEE OF EITHER SIGNATORY STATE
FOR THE PURPOSES OF RETIREMENT OR PENSION BENEFITS, HEALTH
INSURANCE, SOCIAL SECURITY COVERAGE, AND OTHER EMPLOYEE
BENEFITS. HOWEVER, A COMMISSION EMPLOYEE MAY NOT BE A
CLASSIFIED SERVICE EMPLOYEE UNDER THE MERIT SYSTEM. The