WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 5

[(c)](D) (1) The Board shall pay all funds collected under this title to the
Comptroller of the State.

(2) The Comptroller shall distribute the fees to the State Board of
Examiners for Audiologists, HEARING AID DEALERS, and Speech-Language
Pathologists Fund.

[(d)](E) (1) The Fund shall be used to cover the actual documented direct and
indirect costs of fulfilling the statutory and regulatory duties of the Board as provided by
the provisions of this article.

(2)     The Fund is a continuing nonlapsing fund, not subject to § 7-302 of the
State Finance and Procurement Article.

(3)     Any unspent portions of the Fund may not be transferred or revert to
the General Fund of the State, but shall remain in the Fund to be used for the purposes
specified in this article.

(4)     No other State money may be used to support the Fund.

[(e)] (F) (1) A designee of the Board shall administer the Fund.

(2) Moneys in the Fund may be expended only for any lawful purpose
authorized under the provisions of this article.

[(f)] (G) The Legislative Auditor shall audit the accounts and transactions of the
Fund as provided in § 2-1215 of the State Government Article.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Omitted words in § 2-206(c)(2), obsolete language in § 2-206(b), and
extraneous and erroneous subsection designations in § 2-206(b), (c), (d), (e),
and (f) of the Health Occupations Article.

Occurred: Ch. 272, Acts of 1992. Correction by the Michie Company in the
1992 Cumulative Supplement to the 1991 Volume of the Health Occupations
Article is validated by this Act.

SECTION 12. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the publishers of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, subject to the approval of the Director of the Department
of Legislative Reference, shall make any changes in the text of the Annotated Code
necessary to effectuate any termination provision that was enacted by the General
Assembly and has taken effect or will take effect prior to October 1, 1993. Any enactment
of the 1993 Session of the General Assembly that negates or extends the effect of a
previously enacted termination provision shall prevail over the provisions of this section.

SECTION 13. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Drafter's Notes
contained in this Act are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as part
of this Act.

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