Ch. 184                                     1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 184
(House Bill 1289)

AN ACT concerning

Adult Public Guardianship Review Board - Composition

FOR the purpose of altering the composition of each county or multicounty adult
protective guardianship review board by adding a certain number of members and
specifying their qualifications.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Family Law
Section 14-402(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

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

Article - Family Law

14-402.           

(a) (1) Each review board consists of [9] 11 members appointed:

(i) by the county commissioners;

(ii) in Baltimore City, by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the
City Council;

(iii in any county that has a county executive, by the county executive
with the advice and consent of the county council; or

(iv) if 2 or more counties have agreed to establish a multicounty review
board, jointly by the appropriate officials of the counties served by the board.

(2) Of the [9] 11 members:

(i) 1 shall be a professional representative of a local department;

(ii) 2 shall be physicians, including 1 psychiatrist from a local health
department that employs psychiatrists;

(iii) 1 shall be a representative of a local commission on aging;

(iv) 1 shall be a professional representative of a local nonprofit social
service organization;

(v) 1 shall be a lawyer;

(vi) 2 shall be lay individuals; [and]

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