Article 2B - Alcoholic Beverages

15-201.

(i) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the Board shall meet
as frequently as in their respective opinions may be necessary for the public business.

(2) In Worcester County they shall meet at least once each week; in
Somerset County they shall meet at least twice each month.

(3) In Harford County they shall meet at least fifty times each year, but
the chairman may cancel any of those meetings for lack of an agenda.

(4) In Montgomery County, the director of the Department of Liquor
Control shall devote all his time to the duties of his office.

(5) In Garrett County the Board shall meet at least once each month,
BUT THE CHAIRMAN MAY CANCEL A MEETING FOR LACK OF AN AGENDA.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1999.

Approved April 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 114
(House Bill 1006)

AN ACT concerning

State Board of Acupuncture, State Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners,
and State Board of Social Work Examiners - Enforcement Authority

FOR the purpose of authorizing the State Board of Acupuncture to deny a license to
practice acupuncture to certain applicants for licensure under certain
circumstances; authorizing the Acupuncture Board, the State Board of Podiatric
Medical Examiners, and the State Board of Social Work Examiners to take
certain disciplinary action if certain licensees fail to cooperate with a lawful
investigation conducted by these boards; requiring certain individuals whom
certain health occupations boards find to be in violation of certain professional
standards to pay certain costs. of a certain hearing; authorizing certain
injunctive action by certain health occupations boards and State officials in
certain county venues under certain circumstances; authorizing certain health
occupations boards to require certain licensees to submit to an appropriate
examination by a health care provider under certain circumstances; deeming
certain licensees to have consented to a certain examination and to have waived
a certain privilege under certain circumstances; providing that the failure or
refusal of certain licensees to submit to certain examinations is evidence of the
licensees' inability to practice certain health occupations competently unless
certain health occupations boards make a certain finding; requiring certain
health occupations boards to pay the costs of a certain examination; and