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a time; and provided, further, that no member of said Citizens' Committee
shall furnish any supplies of any kind or contract in any manner with
said Citizens' Committee.
1922, ch. 434, sec. 6.
124. The said Citizens' Committee of said Section 5, subject to the
approval of the said Board of County Commissioners, may adopt such
regulations with respect to dumping of garbage, sanitation, erection of
buildings, tearing up of streets, speed regulations, care of property, re-
moval of snow and ice, or other police or health regulations, and to pro-
vide penalties for the violation thereof, as said Committee may deem
proper, which regulations shall be enforced by or through said Committee.
Such penalties shall be recoverable before a magistrate or justice of the
peace of Montgomery' County, Md., for the use of said Citizens' Com-
mittee; provided, however, that if, after due notice, any regulation re-
quiring the removal of unsightly weeds or debris from or the abatement
of any nuisance upon any property within said Section 5, is not complied
with by the owner of the property in a reasonable time, the said Citizens'
Committee shall have the authority to have said work done at a reasonable
price and to assess the cost thereof against the property of the delinquent
party, the same to become a lien against said property and to be collected
in the same manner as the County taxes are collected and turned over to
the Treasurer of the said Citizens' Committee of said Section 5.
1922, ch. 434, sec. 7.
125. For the purpose of making the improvements provided for in
Section 122 of this subtitle or for making improvements from time to time
other than maintenance and repairs, the said Citizens' Committee are here-
by authorized and empowered to borrow money and otherwise contract
indebtedness and obligate said Section 5 in amounts not exceeding in total
at any time ten per cent, of the assessed valuation of all property within
said Section 5, and for these purposes said Section 5 shall be and is hereby
constituted a corporation, and the said Citizens' Committee of said Section
5 are empowered to act for said corporation without in any way being held
individually or personally liable in connection therewith.
1922, ch. 434, sec. 8.
126. The Treasurer of said Citizens' Committee of said Section 5 of
the said Village of Chevy Chase shall deposit all funds coming into his
hands, as such in accordance with the requirements of law for the deposit of
County funds by the County Treasurer, or in such other bank as may be
approved by the Citizens' Committee of said Section 5; provided that the
Treasurer of said Citizens' Committee shall not dispose of any of the
funds coming into his hands as such Treasurer except upon check duly
signed by him as such Treasurer and countersigned by the Chairman, or
some member of the said Committee acting as Chairman pro tem. in his
absence; such acting Chairman shall be duly authorized to act by reso-
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