Ch. 48

LAWS OF MARYLAND

apparent that these laws were intended to be of more than limited
duration. Therefore, the publishers of the Code have integrated
these laws into the provisions enacted by Ch. 840. This
consolidation, as evidenced in the 1987 Supplement to the State
Finance and Procurement Article, has been used as the basis for
this revision.

The affected provisions, as they appear in this Division II,
are: § 13-105; in § 13-106(a), the amount "$100,000"; in the
introductory language of § 13-314(a), the word "shall"; § 14-404;
Title 14, Subtitle 5; § 15-222(c); and § 17-102(c). A provision,
which was codified as former SF § 11-136.2 and which terminated
by operation of law, on June 30, 1988, is deleted.

Department organization and positions:

Throughout this Division II, references to current
departments, units, and positions are substituted for obsolete
references to entities that have been abolished or otherwise
ceased to exist.

Terminology and standard provisions:

Throughout this Division II, the term "unit" is substituted
for former references such as "agency", "board", "commission",
"department", "foundation", and "fund" except when a former
reference indicated a specific entity. The term "unit" is used
as the general term for an organization in the State government
because it is broad enough to include all such entities.

Also throughout this Division II, for consistency and to
avoid unnecessary confusion, the singular verb "adopt" is used in
relation to regulations and verbs such as "prescribe" and
"promulgate" are deleted. Regulations, in any event, are subject
to Title 10, Subtitle 1 of the State Government Article.

Also throughout this Division II, the word "regulation" is
used and, in some instances, is substituted for the former word
"rule", to distinguish, to the extent possible, between
regulations of Executive units and rules of Judicial or
Legislative units and to establish consistency in the use of
these words. This substitution conforms to the practice of the
Division of State Documents.

Also throughout this Division II, the word "law" is used for
the former words "law or regulation", since the broad reference
to a "law" includes a reference to a "regulation". See, e.g.,
Maryland Port Administration v. Browner Contracting Co., 303 Md.
44 (1985).

It is a precept of the Division of Statutory Revision to
revise the law in a clear, straightforward manner, and, once
something is said, to say it the same way every time it is said.

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