Ch. 3

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Former Art. 56, § 330(d) and Art. 75 1/2, § 2(c) defined the
terms "professional land surveyor" and "professional engineer" to
mean an individual who is registered with the respective Board.
In effect, the word "professional" was synonomous with the word
"registered" or, under the revised terminology, the word
"licensed". In most instances, the Business Occupations Article
Review Committee would conform the former terminology to that
generally used throughout the Code for comparable licensing
provisions, and the terms "licensed land surveyor" and "licensed
engineer" would be substituted for the terms "professional land
surveyor" and "professional engineer". In these instances,
however, the Committee determined that the terms are so firmly
established in the professions that the terms should not be
changed now for the sake of uniformity with other licensing laws.
Therefore, the terms "professional land surveyor" and
"professional engineer" are retained in the revision.

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

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

In this article, the word "regulation" is substituted for
the former references to "rules and regulations" 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. See
the revisor's note to SG § 10-101(e).

Also throughout this article, for consistency and to avoid
unnecessary confusion, the singular verb "adopt" is used in
relation to rules or 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.

In the "Membership" sections of this article, there is a
subsection captioned "Tenure; vacancies". A standard paragraph
included in each of those subsections provides that a "member who
is appointed after a term has begun serves only for the rest of
the term and until a successor is appointed and qualifies". That
paragraph applies: (1) when a successor is appointed to replace
a member who has died, resigned, or failed for any other reason
to complete a term; (2) when a member is appointed to succeed a
member who has "held over" to part of the next term, pending the
delayed appointment and qualification of the successor; or
(3) when, in any other situation, a member takes office after a

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