WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                        Ch. 5

involve or give rise to unsanitary conditions or conditions
detrimental to health.

Nothing in this article or section contained shall be
construed to affect in any manner any of the powers and duties of
either the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene or the
Secretary of the Environment or any public general laws of the
State relating to the subject of health.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Omitted conjunction in Article 25A, § 5(J).

Occurred: Prior to the 1957 codification of the
Annotated Code of Maryland.

Article 26A - Criminal Injuries Compensation Act

3.

(b) The term of office of each such member shall be five
years[, except that the members first appointed shall serve for
terms of five years, four years and three years respectively].
Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring otherwise than
by expiration of a term shall be appointed for the remainder of
the unexpired terms.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Obsolete language in Article 26A, § 3(b).

Occurred. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board
was created by Ch. 455, Acts of 1968. Language became
obsolete upon expiration of the initial terms of the
original members of the Board.

12.

(e) In determining the amount of an award, the Board
members[,] shall determine whether, because of his conduct, the
victim of such crime contributed to the infliction of his injury,
and the Board members shall reduce the amount of the award or
reject the claim altogether, in accordance with such
determination; provided, however, that the Board members may
disregard for this purpose the responsibility of the victim for
his own injury where the record shows that such responsibility
was attributable to efforts by the victim to prevent a crime or
an attempted crime from occurring in his presence or to apprehend
a person who had committed a crime in his presence or had, in
fact, committed a felony.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

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