WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 103

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Business Regulation

11-310.

(a)     The Commission may delegate to a hearing committee of at least 3 of its
members the power to hold adjudicatory proceedings under this title, including
evidentiary hearings.

(b)     (1) A unanimous decision by the hearing committee is binding and is a final
decision of the Commission.

(2) If the decision of the hearing committee is not unanimous [:

(i) the hearing committee shall make its recommendation to the full
Commission; and

(ii) after the full Commission considers the recommendation of the
hearing committee, the full Commission shall make a final decision], A DE NOVO
HEARING SHALL BE CONDUCTED BY THE COMMISSION.

[(c) Except as provided in this section, the Commission alone has the final
nondelegable authority to act in any disciplinary action or other adjudicatory
proceeding.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1993.

Approved April 26, 1993.

CHAPTER 103
(Senate Bill 165)

AN ACT concerning

Public Service Commission - Fuel Adjustment Charges - Hearings

FOR the purpose of altering the frequency with which the Public Service Commission
conducts public evidentiary hearings on fuel adjustment charges and purchased gas
adjustments; and generally relating to the fuel adjustment charges of utilities under
the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law
Section 54D

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

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