Ch. 171                                     LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 171

(Senate Bill 557)

AN ACT concerning

Blind Industries and Services Duties - Accountability

FOR the purpose of requiring an annual audit of Blind Industries
and Services of Maryland; and requiring that Blind
Industries and Services of Maryland keep certain records and
make a certain annual report.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 30 - Deaf, Mute or Blind
Section 6
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1986 Replacement Volume)

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

Article 30 - Deaf, Mute or Blind

6.

Said board of trustees shall constitute a body corporate
under the name and style of "Blind Industries and Services of
Maryland," with the right to acquire and hold property, real,
personal and mixed, in any manner whatsoever; to sue and be sued,
and to make and use a common seal, with the right to alter and
change the same at any time. The board shall organize immediately
upon its appointment and qualification, and elect one of its
members chairman and another as treasurer. It shall also have the
power to elect one of its members to serve as chairman, whenever
it is inconvenient or impossible for the regularly elected
chairman to serve. It is also empowered to appoint a corporate
secretary and other necessary employees and to fix their
compensation. The Blind Industries and Services of Maryland shall
be open for the labor and manufactures of all blind citizens of
Maryland over eighteen years of age, who can give satisfactory
evidences of character and of their ability to do the work
required of them. All the profits arising from the operation of
blind industries shall be used in furthering its usefulness. Said
board shall acquire suitable quarters by lease, purchase or
otherwise in the State of Maryland and shall have full power to
establish, maintain, direct and supervise all matters pertaining
to blind industries, its maintenance and regulation, including
the purchase of all machinery and materials as may seem to them
suitable and necessary, and the barter or exchange of articles or
manufactures entrusted to them for disposal. THE BOARD SHALL:

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