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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 475

for the membership of the committee; authorizing the

Director of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to

set standards for admission and to adopt rules and

regulations for the appointment, terms, and duties of the

members of the admissions committee; making stylistic

changes; and generally relating to the admissions committee

for certain Regional Institutes for Children and

Adolescents.

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene to adopt by a certain date rules and regulations for
admissions to certain Regional Institutes for Children and
Adolescents in cooperation with certain other groups;
providing that the Department may not reject certain
candidates under certain circumstances; providing that the
Department shall grant priority to certain candidates under
certain circumstances; making stylistic changes; and
generally relating to admissions for certain Regional
Institutes for Children and Adolescents.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 10-406(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

10-406.

(c) (1) The Department [of Health and Mental Hygiene] shall
provide for a Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in
Prince George's County by July 1, 1983. This Regional Institute
shall be comparable to the program operating at the Regional
Institute for Children and Adolescents in Montgomery County.

(2)  The Regional Institute is a residential center
for severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.

(3)  The Department [of Health and Mental Hygiene]
shall provide residential and day treatment programs for children
and adolescents from Prince George's County.

(i) The Department [of Health and Mental
Hygiene] shall offer to contract the education program to the
local educational agency. The costs of the contract shall be
determined by using the same per pupil costs as is used in the
contract of these services at the Regional Institute in
Montgomery County.