372                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 155

OTHER THAN TO RENDER, SUBJECT TO THE DISCRETION
AND CONTROL OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, SUCH LEGAL
AID, ADVICE AND COUNSEL AS THE SECRETARY AND
OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE DEPARTMENT MAY REQUIRE,
AND THE SUPERVISION OF THE OTHER ASSISTANT ATTOR-
NEYS GENERAL ASSIGNED TO THE DEPARTMENT. AFTER
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS DESIGNATED AN ASSIST-
ANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TO SERVE AS COUNSEL TO THE
SAID DEPARTMENT, HE SHALL NOT REASSIGN SAID COUN-
SEL WITHOUT CONSULTATION WITH THE SECRETARY
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE PLANNING. THE COUN-
SEL TO THE SAID DEPARTMENT, AND THE OTHER ASSIST-
ANT ATTORNEYS GENERAL SO EMPLOYED, SHALL EACH
PERFORM SUCH LEGAL DUTIES FOR THE DEPARTMENT
AS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL MAY, FROM TIME TO TIME,
ASSIGN TO THEM; AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS
HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO ASSIGN TO THEM, AND EACH OF
THEM, THE PERFORMANCE, SUBJECT TO HIS DISCRETION
AND CONTROL, OF ANY OF THE DUTIES WITH RESPECT
TO SAID DEPARTMENT REQUIRED OF HIM BY LAW. ALL
SUCH ASSISTANT ATTORNEYS GENERAL SHALL BE PRAC-
TICING LAWYERS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND, IN GOOD
STANDING, AND THEY SHALL RECEIVE SUCH COMPENSA-
TION AS SHALL BE PROVIDED IN THE STATE BUDGET.

(e) The Secretary shall be responsible for the budget of the
Department of State Planning and for the promulgation of all rules
and regulations of the Department.

227.

(a) The Secretary of State Planning shall also: (1) have access, or
designate staff members of the Department who shall have access, to
information, reports and data which relate to State planning in the
possession of departments, agencies or instrumentalities of the State,
or in the possession of regional, metropolitan, county, municipal or
other local agencies and instrumentalities; (2) have the right to
enter, or designate staff members of the Department who may enter,
at reasonable times and in such a manner as to cause no unnecessary
injury upon any land in order to make examinations and surveys
related to State planning; (3) hold hearings whenever he deems it
necessary on matters of State planning WHENEVER IT IS IN THE
PUBLIC INTEREST AND, after ADEQUATE PUBLIC notice; to
interacted parties; (4) attend meetings of regional or metropolitan
planning commissions and interstate and other planning conferences,
in the interest of intergovernmental planning cooperation; and (5)
exercise all other powers necessary and proper for the discharge of
his duties.

(b) The Secretary of State Planning shall have a seal for pur-
poses of authentication of copies of records or papers in his office.

228.

The State Planning Department and the Office of Director of
State Planning are hereby abolished. Whenever the terms "State
Planning Department" or "Director of State Planning" are used
in any provisions of this Code, or in any other laws, ordinances,