2378                                County Local Laws

12-6. Authority to regulate.

The Council is hereby authorized to prescribe by law for the operation,
maintenance and conduct of trailer coach parks and trailer coach spaces.

Section 2. Sections 14-1, titled "Auction sales—Authority to regu-
late, etc." 14-10, titled "Same—Authority to regulate, etc.," 14-13, titled
"Public amusements, clubhouses, sanitariums, hospitals, etc.— Generally,"
14-14, titled "Same—Licensing," 14-15, titled "Bicycles," 14-17, titled
"Same—Regulation and licensing generally," 14-18A, titled "Closing-Out
Sales," and 14-19, titled "License fees generally," of Chapter 14, titled
"Licensing and Regulation Generally," of the Montgomery County Code
1965, are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

14-1. Auction sales—Authority to regulate, etc.

The Council is authorized by law to license and regulate or limit as
to location any and all auction sales at which goods, wares, and merchan-
dise of any kind whatsoever are sold or offered for sale at auction within the
County; provided, that the authority herein granted shall not include
authority to regulate judicial sales under the terms of mortgages or deeds
of trust, or sales by executors or administrators.

14-10. Same—Authority to regulate, etc.

The County is authorized and empowered to provide for the issuance
of the permit or license provided for by the preceding Section upon the
payment of a reasonable fee therefor, and the Council may adopt or
authorize the County Executive to issue such rules and regulations in
connection with such permit, license and fee as are necessary to protect
the public health, safety and welfare.

14-13. Public amusements, clubhouses, sanitariums, hospitals, etc.—Gen-
erally.

The Council is hereby empowered to prescribe by law for the licensing
and regulation within the limits of the County any place of public amuse-
ment, or recreation, pleasure parks, picnic grounds, clubhouses, theatrical
exhibitions, baseball grounds, bowling alleys, billiard halls or poolrooms,
camp-meeting grounds, graveyards, sanitariums, hospitals, homes for the
aged, private educational institutions, orphan asylums, homes for children
and convalescent homes, signs or signboards, roadside stands or establish-
ments; and in order to safeguard the public health, safety, morals and
welfare, to pass rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the
powers herein granted or to authorize the County Executive to issue
regulations to implement any law; provided, that such rules and regula-
tions shall contain proper standards for the exercise of the discretion con-
ferred herein and shall operate uniformly; provided, that the power of the
Council to license, regulate or limit clubhouses shall not apply to the
clubhouses of country clubs which were in existence and operation on
January 1, 1927, and which on that date had a public or private list of
fifty or more bona fide members paying dues and which on that date
maintained on the club premises at least two of the following athletic
facilities for their membership :

(1)    A golf course of nine holes or more.

(2)    Two or more tennis courts, or

(3)    A swimming pool not less than forty feet in length and twenty
feet in width.