2204                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [Ch. 365

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
[[MARYLAND, That Section 568V(3) of Article 4 3 - Health,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement
Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:]]
MARYLAND, That new Section 568VA be and it is hereby
added to Article 43 - Health, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) to
read as follows:

Article 43 - Health

[[568V.

To properly carry out its authority the Commission
shall:

(3) In the determination of reasonable rates under
this section for each institution, CONSIDER ANY RELEVANT
CRITERIA, STANDARDS, AND COST ACCOUNTING AND ALLOCATION
METHODS AND TECHNIQUES, AND take into account all the
costs of complying with the recommendations of
appropriate areawide and State comprehensive health
planning agencies to make compliance possible with
Maryland comprehensive health planning law as found in
§59C of Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland.]]

568VA.

THE COMMISSION [[MAY]]SHALL APPLY ANY REASONABLE,
RELEVANT, OR GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES IN
DETERMINING REASONABLE RATES FOR EACH INSTITUTION SUBJECT
TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBTITLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 22, 1975.

CHAPTER 366
(Senate Bill 844)

AN ACT concerning

Posting — Courthouse Door

FOR the purpose of providing that in certain instances
where notice of a sale or readiness for delivery of