HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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SECTION 4. 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 and 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 agency under the laws
enacted by this Act.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That any clause,
sentence, section or part of this Article is held
unconstitutional or invalid, that unconstitutionality or
invalidity does not affect the validity of the remainder of this
Article.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That catchlines in
this Act are not law and may not be considered to have been
enacted as part of the Act.

SECTION 7. 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statute there amended, repealed, or transferred, and validly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repealed, or transferred by this Act as though the repeal,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
aspects as having the powers and obligations granted the former
agency.

SECTION 6. 8. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved May 2 8, 1985.

CHAPTER 716
(House Bill 1721)
AN ACT concerning