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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 5

The misnomer was noted by the Majority Leader of the
House of Delegates.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s) 1
through 12, 14 through 17, and 17A-1 through 17B of Article 88A
Social Services Administration of the Annotated Code of
Maryland be repealed and reenacted without amendments.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of
Maryland read as follows:

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

[18.

If any provision of this subtitle or the application
thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the
remainder of said sections and the application thereof to other
persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.]

DRAFTER'S NOTE: This correction is intended to eliminate
Article 88A, § 18 as an unnecessary duplication of
Article 1, § 23.

Article 1, § 23 provides that all statutes enacted
after July 1, 1973 are severable unless the statute
specifically provides that its portions are not
severable. By repealing and reenacting Article 88A,
§§ 1 through 17B here and earlier in this Act, the
provisions of the subtitle are enacted subsequent to
July 1, 1973 and are thereby covered by the
severability provision in Article 1. Article 88A, §
18 thus becomes unnecessarily duplicative.

This correction was suggested by the Majority Leader
of the House of Delegates.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the publishers
of the Annotated Code of Maryland are directed to propose a plan
for the renumbering of the sections of Article 41 of the
Annotated Code prior to the republication of the replacement
volume containing that article. The proposal should correct
numerical and similar nonnumerical cross-references throughout
the Annotated Code that refer to provisions found in Article 41.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Revisor's
Drafter's Notes contained in this Act are not law and may not be
considered to have been enacted as part of this Act.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the provisions