Ch. 26                                     2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

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 3. 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.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the provisions of this
Act are intended solely to correct technical errors in the law and there is no intent to
revive or otherwise affect law that is the subject of other acts, whether those acts were
signed by the Governor prior to or after the signing of this Act.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That any reference in the
Annotated Code of Maryland rendered obsolete by an Act of the General Assembly of
2004 shall be corrected by the publisher of the Annotated Code, in consultation with
and subject to the approval of the Department of Legislative Services, with no further
action required by the General Assembly. The publisher shall adequately describe any
such correction in an editor's note following the section affected.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the publisher of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, in consultation with and subject to the approval of the
Department of Legislative Services, at the time of publication of a new volume or a
replacement volume of the Annotated Code, shall make nonsubstantive corrections to
codification, style, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, spelling, and any reference
rendered obsolete by an Act of the General Assembly, with no further action required
by the General Assembly.

SECTION 7. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is an
emergency measure, is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health
or safety, has been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and shall take
effect from the date it is enacted.

Approved April 13, 2004.

CHAPTER 26
(Senate Bill 75)

AN ACT concerning

Code Revision - Miscellaneous Provisions

FOR the purpose of revising, without substantive change, certain provisions of the
Annotated Code of Maryland in order to effectuate the purposes of the Code
Revision process; repealing certain obsolete or redundant provisions of the
Annotated Code of Maryland in order to effectuate the purposes of the Code
Revision process; revising, without substantive change, provisions relating to:
water companies, the location of local correctional facilities, fines and
forfeitures, the Governor's emergency powers for catastrophic health

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