1004 ARTICLE 78A.

1933 (Special Sess. ), ch. 32, sec. 2.

20. If any clause, sentence, part or parts of this sub-title, or any sec-
tion thereof, shall be held to be invalid for any reason, such holding shall
not be construed as affecting the validity of the remaining parts of this
sub-title or of any section or part of a section thereof, it being the Legis-
lative intent that the remainder of this sub-title shall stand, notwithstand-
ing the invalidity of such clause, sentence part or parts of this sub-title,
or of any section or part of a section and it is hereby expressly declared
that if the provisions of this sub-title, authorizing the creation of the Com-
mission known as the "Maryland Emergency Housing and Park Commis-
sion", shall be declared to be invalid by any Court of competent jurisdic-
tion, all and every action theretofore taken or done by said Commission
under the authority of this sub-title which shall have been approved and
adopted by the Board of Public Works as the act of said Board of Public
Works shall nevertheless be valid, and in such event the Board of Public
Works shall be authorized to exercise the rights, powers and duties of the
Maryland Emergency Housing and Park Commission until June 1, 1934,
when the said Maryland Emergency Housing and Park Commission shall
be appointed as herein provided and thereafter assume and discharge the
rights, powers and duties conferred by this sub-title. ¹

1935, ch. 396, sec. 20.

21. For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, con-
struction and operation of public works as defined in this sub-title, located
within their respective territorial boundaries, any municipality, county or
local sub-division within this State may, upon such terms, as it may
determine:

(a) grant, sell, convey, lease or donate any of its property to the State
of Maryland, or to the Maryland Emergency Housing and Park Commis-
sion, or to any corporation formed by said Commission under the authority
of Section 17 (e) of this, sub-title; and

(b) to the extent that it is within the scope of each of their respective
functions, (1) cause the services customarily provided by each of them to
be Tendered for the benefit of the occupants of such public works, and (2)
provide and maintain parks and sewage, water and other facilities adjacent
to or in connection with such public works, and (3) enter into any agree-
ment to open, close, pave, install, or change the grade of streets, alleys or
sidewalks within the corporate limits of any municipality, and/or to plan,
replan, zone or rezone any areas within the corporate limits of any muni-
cipality.

In connection with the exercise of this power, any municipality or
county may incur the entire expense of any such public improvements
located within its territorial boundaries without assessment against
abutting property owners.

¹ Sec. 3 of ch. 32 of acts of 1933 (Special Session) repealed all laws inconsistent
therewith to extent of such inconsistency.