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(8)   To hire a director of any facility or service that it establishes
and to provide for such additional employees, their qualifications
and wages as are necessary to properly operate such facilities;

(9)  To require that all facilities and services that it establishes
maintain such standards that they may qualify for licenses as
hospitals from the State Board of Health as required in Article US,
Section 556 et. ff. (1957 edition) as amended from time to time;

(10)  To integrate its facilities with, accept funds from, and co-op-
erate with the State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene in any facet
or facets of its operations insofar as deemed advisable by this Board.

(11)   To establish close liaison with the Harford Memorial Hospital
for the purpose of providing comprehensive hospital, nursing, and
convalescent care in Harford County.

(d)  The Board shall elect one of its members to serve as chairman
for any period it may designate. It shall hold such meetings as may be
necessary for the proper conduct of its business, not, however, less
frequently than once per month. It shall adopt, subject to the terms
of this section, such rules as are necessary for the internal regulation
of the Board.

(e)   The activities of the Board shall be supported insofar as
possible by citizen support, voluntary contributions, fees and charges,
payments from the state and federal government. The County Com-
missioners are authorized to make annual appropriations in support
of the operations of the Citizens Nursing Home Board of Harford
County for the objective of maintaining an adequate level of medical
and nursing care for the aged, convalescent, and chronically ill
citizens of Harford County.

(f)  The Board shall annually report their activities to the County
Commissioners during the preceding year, together with recom-
mendations or requests they deem appropriate to achieve the ob-
jectives and purposes of this Act.

(g)  The purpose of the Citizens Nursing Home Board of Harford
County is declared to be for the general benefit of the citizens of
Harford County and charitable in nature. Upon appointment of its
members by the County Commissioners of Harford County, the
Board shall become a quasi public corporation with perpetual ex-
istence, subject to modification by The General Assembly of the State
of Maryland if such modification is necessary, to effectuate the pur-
poses herein declared; and it is subject to termination by The Gen-
eral Assembly when and if its substantial purposes cease.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved April 17, 1963.

CHAPTER 301
(Senate Bill 486)

AN ACT to add new Section 187D to Article 66½ of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1962 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles", sub-