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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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administrative procedures to achieve effectively and efficiently
the purposes of this title. In the implementation of the system,
the State Administration may assume income maintenance functions
that this article otherwise assigns to local units only to the
extent necessary for efficient implementation of the system.
Such changes in assignments and performance of functions will be
effected by executive order, promulgated by the Governor in
accordance with § 15CB of Article 41.
[(c) The State Administration shall establish and, through
its bureau of support enforcement, administer a program for
recovery of child support payments. The Administration may adopt
rules and regulations governing operation of the program.]
[(d)] (C) The State Social Services Administration shall
exercise supervision, as hereinafter set forth, over all public
and private institutions having the care, custody or control of
dependent, abandoned or neglected children, except those
institutions under the authority of the State Juvenile Services
Administration and those agencies, persons, or institutions
designated by the State Juvenile Services Administration as
provided for in § 6-113 of the Health - General Article.
[(e)] (D) To enable the State Department to discharge
properly the duties imposed upon it, the State Department may of
its own motion, or by the direction of the Governor shall, cause
charges to be formulated against any corporation, association,
institution or agency engaged in charitable or social services or
welfare activities, except state-aided hospitals, receiving
financial assistance from the State or with which the State has
contracts, and cause a copy of such charges to be served on such
corporation, association, institution or agency. The State
Department shall have power to issue summonses for witnesses and
documents, which summonses shall be duly served, as are other
similar writs, by any sheriff to whom the same shall be directed,
and to administer oaths, and take testimony which it shall cause
to be transcribed and included in its report. The Governor, with
the approval of the Board of Public Works, is hereby authorized
and empowered to withhold, in whole or in part, further payments
to any such institution or agency out of current or future
appropriations, upon recommendation of the State Department if in
its judgment the facts warrant, and by budget amendment to
transfer any part of such appropriation so withdrawn to any other
institution or agency of a like nature, upon recommendation of
the State Department.
[(f)] (E) The State Department shall have further power to
visit any state-aided institution, organization, or agency
engaged in social service or welfare activities, and thoroughly
to inspect the management, buildings and equipment thereof; but
such visits and inspections shall be made at reasonably
convenient hours and with reasonable regard to the established
discipline, regulations and customs of the said institution,
organization or agency.
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