HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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SECTION 8. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That except as
expressly provided to the contrary in this Act, any transaction
affected by or flowing from any change of nomenclature or any
statute there amended, repealed, or transferred, and validly
entered into before the effective date and every right, duty, or
interest flowing from the statute remains valid after the
effective date and may be terminated, completed, consummated, or
enforced as required or permitted by any statute amended,
repealed, or transferred by this Act as though the repeal,
amendment, or transfer had not occurred. If the change in
nomenclature involves a change in name or designation of any
State agency, the successor agency shall be considered in all
respects as having the powers and obligations granted the former
agency.

SECTION 9. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the continuity
of every department, board, commission, committee, agency, or
other unit affected by this Act is retained. The personnel,
records, files, furniture, fixtures, and other properties and all
appropriations, credits, assets, liabilities, and obligations of
each retained unit are continued as the personnel, records,
files, furniture, fixtures, properties, appropriations, credits,
assets, liabilities, and obligations of the unit under the laws
enacted by this Act.

SECTION 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That except as
expressly provided to the contrary in this Act, any person
licensed, registered, or certified by any board established or
continued by any statute amended, repealed, or transferred by
this Act is considered for all purposes to be licensed,
registered, or certified by the appropriate board continued under
this Act for the duration of the term for which the license,
registration, or certification was issued, and may renew that
authorization in accordance with the appropriate renewal
provisions of this Act. Except as expressly provided to the
contrary in this Act, a person who was originally licensed,
registered, or certified under a provision of law that has been
deleted by this Act as obsolete continues to meet the
requirements to the same extent as if that provision had not been
deleted.

SECTION 11. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this subtitle
shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to the powers
and authority conferred by other laws upon the Department of
Human Resources and may not be regarded as in derogation of any
powers now existing in the Department of Human Resources.

SECTION 12. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect on October 1, 1984.

Approved May 15, 1984.