(a) Said board of trustees shall constitute a body corporate under the name
and style of "Blind Industries and Services of Maryland", with the
right to acquire and hold property, real, personal and mixed, in any
manner whatsoever; to sue and be sued, and to make and use a common
seal, with the right to alter and change the same at any time.
(b) The board shall organize immediately upon its appointment and
qualification, and elect one of its members chairman and another as
treasurer. It shall also have the power to elect one of its members to
serve as chairman, whenever it is inconvenient or impossible for the
regularly elected chairman to serve. It is also empowered to appoint a
corporate secretary and other necessary employees and to fix their
compensation.
(c) The Blind Industries and Services of Maryland shall be open for the
labor and manufactures of all blind citizens of Maryland over eighteen
years of age, who can give satisfactory evidences of character and of
their ability to do the work required of them. All the profits arising
from the operation of blind industries shall be used in furthering its
usefulness.
(d) The board shall acquire suitable quarters by lease, purchase or
otherwise in the State of Maryland and shall have full power to
establish, maintain, direct and supervise all matters pertaining to
blind industries, its maintenance and regulation, including the
purchase of all machinery and materials as may seem to them suitable
and necessary, and the barter or exchange of articles or manufactures
entrusted to them for disposal.
(e) The board shall:
(1) Keep proper records of its funds and accounts;
(2) Make an annual report to the Governor, the General Assembly in
accordance with § 2-1246 of the State Government Article, and the
chairman of the Joint Audit Committee on the condition and operations
of Blind Industries and Services of Maryland including a thorough
discussion of its programs and the participation of the blind community
in these programs; and
(3) Be audited annually.
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