Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

shall have the authority to hear any issues referred to said
board, and the determination thereof by any two members shall be
deemed to be the determination thereof by the board. The medical
board shall have the power and authority to make rules regulating
its procedure, to contract for laboratory work, to make necessary
investigations of working conditions; to provide for ordering and
the conducting of autopsies, to conduct hearings on medical
questions, to determine medical issues, and to perform such other
reasonable duties as the work of the board may require. The
functions of the board shall be as set forth elsewhere in this
article.

(b)  The members of the medical board shall devote as much
of their time as may be required to perform the duties and carry
out the functions of the board as set forth in this article. The
chairman of the medical board and the two associate members of
the board shall receive an annual salary as provided in the
budget, and each member of the board shall be entitled to the
reasonable and necessary traveling and other expenses incurred
while actually engaged in the performance of their duties.

(c)  The provisions of this section and elsewhere in this
article providing for the creation of the medical board of the
Workmen's Compensation Commission and relating to its functions
are of no effect and may not be enforced after June 1, 1983, and
the terms of office of all board members shall terminate on that
date, notwithstanding any other provision of law.]

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Obsolete language in Article 101, § 27.

Occurred: Ch. 521, Acts of 1982.

36.

Each employee (or in the case of death his family or
dependents) entitled to receive compensation under this article
shall receive the same in accordance with the following schedule
and except as in this article otherwise provided, such payment
shall be in lieu of any and all rights of action whatsoever
against any person whomsoever.

(7) (h) Nonresident alien dependents may be officially
represented by the consular officers of the nation of which such
alien [of] OR aliens may be citizens or subjects, and in such
cases the consular officers shall have the right to receive, for
distribution to such nonresident alien dependents, all
compensation awarded hereunder, and the receipt of such consular
officers shall be a full discharge of all sums paid to and
received by them.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

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