S.B. 893                                                    VETOES

(5)      CLASSIFIED STATE EMPLOYEES WHO ELECT NOT TO TRANSFER TO
THE NEW PERSONNEL SYSTEM SHALL RETAIN ALL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF THE
STATE MERIT SYSTEM UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1995.

(6)      STATE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE NOT CLASSIFIED IN THE STATE MERIT
SYSTEM WHO ELECT NOT TO TRANSFER TO THE NEW PERSONNEL SYSTEM SHALL
RETAIN SUCH RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS EXISTED ON JULY 1, 1993, UNTIL JANUARY
1, 1995.

(7)      THE SERVICE SHALL PERMIT CONTINUATION OF THE RIGHTS OF
EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS IN EXISTENCE ON JULY 1, 1993, TO REPRESENT
EMPLOYEES AND TO COLLECT UNION DUES THROUGH A CHECKOFF SYSTEM. THE
SERVICE SHALL NOT ENTER INTO BINDING ARBITRATION OR BINDING COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING AGREEMENTS ESTABLISHING WAGES, HOURS, PENSION RIGHTS, OR
WORKING CONDITIONS FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE SERVICE IF STATE EMPLOYEES IN
GENERAL ARE AUTHORIZED BY LAW TO ENTER INTO BINDING ARBITRATION OR
BINDING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS ESTABLISHING WAGES, HOURS,
PENSION RIGHTS, OR WORKING CONDITIONS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES, THE SERVICE
SHALL MAY ENTER INTO THE SAME TYPE OF AGREEMENTS FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE
SERVICE.

3-104.

(a)     The Service has all powers necessary for carrying out the purposes of this
subtitle, including the following rights and powers set forth in this section.

(b)     To have perpetual existence as a corporation.

(c)     To adopt [,' subject to the approval of the Secretary of Natural Resources,]
bylaws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures for the regulation of its affairs and
conduct of its business.:

(d)     To adopt an official seal and alter it.

(e)     To maintain [, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Natural Resources,]
one or more offices at a place or places it chooses.

(f)      To appoint[, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Natural Resources,]
agents and employees, to prescribe their duties, and fix their compensation as set forth in
this subtitle.

(g)     To sue and be sued.

(h) To acquire, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, improve, maintain, lease as
lessor or as lessee, repair and operate projects within or without the State. The Service
shall establish reasonable rules and regulations for the use of any project. It may acquire,
purchase, hold, lease as lessee, and use any franchise and any property, real, personal or
mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein necessary to carry out the purposes
of the Service. It may sell, lease as lessor, transfer, and dispose of any property or interest
in it that it has acquired.

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