VETOES
(E) (D) If a vacancy occurs on the board, it shall be
filled for the unexpired term by an appointment by the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(F) (E) Trustees shall receive per diem compensation for
each board or committee meeting attended in the amount as
provided in the State budget and shall be reimbursed for expenses
incurred while actually engaged in the performance of their
duties in accordance with Standard State Travel Regulations.
(A) 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.
(B) 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.
(C) 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]
(D) THE 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.
(E) The board shall;
(1) Keep proper records of its funds and accounts;
(2) Make an annual report [on its condition and
operations] to the Governor, the General Assembly in accordance
with § 2-1312 of the State Government Article, and the chairman
of the Joint Budget and Audit Committee ON THE CONDITION AND
OPERATIONS OF BLIND INDUSTRIES AND SERVICES OF MARYLAND INCLUDING
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