HARRY HUGHES, Governor

4183

Health Articles

FOR the purpose of correcting outdated references to
material included in the Health - General, Health
Environmental, and Health Occupations Articles;
conforming certain terminology to that used in those
articles; substituting references to current positions,
agencies, and other entities for obsolete references to
defunct positions, agencies, and other entities;
deleting an obsolete provision enabling the former
State Department of Health to have certain information
on marriages; deleting an obsolete provision on funding
of the Postmortem Examiners Commission; transferring
certain provisions of Article 42 - Habeas Corpus and
Article 43 - Health, of the Annotated Code of Maryland
to other articles of the Code and to the public local
laws; correcting certain cross-references in the
transferred provisions; making stylistic changes;
subject to a certain contingency, repealing Articles
42, 43, and 44 of the Code, in their entireties; and,
after a certain date, repealing a provision of the
Health - General Article relating to a study to be
completed by that date.

BY transferring

Article 42 - Habeas Corpus

Section 23, 24, 25, 27, and 28 and the subtitle

"Uniform Act for Extradition of Persons of

Unsound Mind"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

to be

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative

Departments
Section 43A, 43B, 43C, 43E, and 43F
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, and transferring

Article 42 - Habeas Corpus

Section 26

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

to be

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative

Departments
Section 43D