# COMAR Title 15 — Maryland Department of Agriculture

## Subtitle 01 — Office of the Secretary

### Chapter 13 — Supervision and Review of Decisions and Actions of Units Within the Department

#### Regulation .01 Purpose.

*COMAR 15.01.13.01*

A. This chapter is adopted in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission.

B. The purpose of this chapter is to provide for active supervision of certain units within the Department to:

  (1) Prevent unreasonable anticompetitive actions; and

  (2) Ensure that anticompetitive actions are consistent with affirmatively expressed and clearly articulated State policies to displace competition.