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OPEN MARKET, WITHOUT THREAT OF CONDEMNATION SELLS HIS LAND
TO A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE AGENCY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 22, 1980.

CHAPTER 164

(House Bill 534)

AN ACT concerning

Air Quality

FOR the purpose of clarifying the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene's permit authority regarding air quality
by deleting reference to certain terms.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 43 - Health

Section 706(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 43 - Health

706.

(a) The Department may require by regulation that
before any person either builds, erects, alters, replaces,
operates, sells, rents, or uses any source[, article,
machine, equipment or other contrivance] specified by such
regulation the use of which may cause or control emissions
into the air, such person shall obtain a permit to do so or
be required to register with the Department. The aforesaid
provisions of this section shall not apply to machinery and
equipment which are normally used in a mobile manner and
boilers used exclusively for the operation of steam engines
related to farm and domestic use, nor to generating stations
constructed by electric companies , nor to the actual
construction of buildings, separate from any possible
emission producing machinery they may house, nor to parking
garages or parking lots. The Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene upon notification from the Public Service Commission
of an application for a certificate of public convenience