846 ARTICLE 65A.

The members of the Commission and its employees shall receive their
actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

A majority of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transac-
tion of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise
of any power of the Commission. No vacancy in the Commission shall
impair the right of the remaining Commissioners to exercise all the powers
of the Commission. The act of a majority of the Commission, when in
session as a Commission, shall be deemed to be the act of the Commission;
but any investigation, inquiry or hearing which the Commission has power
to undertake or to hold, may be undertaken or held by or before any Com-
missioner designated for the purpose by the Commission; and every find-
ing, order or decision made by a Commissioner so designated, pursuant
to such investigation, inquiry or hearing, approved and confirmed by the
Commission and ordered filed in its office, shall be deemed to be the
finding, order or decision of the Commission.

The Chairman of the Commission and its executive secretary shall give
a corporate bond to the State of Maryland conditioned for the faithful
performance of his duties and for the safe-keeping and lawful application
of moneys coming to the Commission in the amount of $5, 000 and with
surety to the satisfaction of the Board of Public Works. The premiums
thereon shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses of the Com-
mission. Such bonds shall be filed in the office of the Board of Public
Works. The executive secretary of the Commission shall keep a record
of its proceedings. A duly certified copy of any such record shall be
prima facie evidence of any fact which might be proved by the production
of the original.

The principal office of the Commission shall be in the City of Baltimore.

1935, ch. 310, sec. 3.

3. The Commission, when requested by a substantial proportion of the
producers and/or consumers and/or distributors in any marketing area,
shall have power:

(a) To supervise and regulate the entire milk industry in any marketing
area established under sub-section (e) of this section. The general power
hereby conferred upon the Commission extends to the supervision and
regulation of the production, processing, distribution and sale of the
entire output of the lacteal secretion of dairy animals in this State to the
extent that the same is available in the form of milk as defined by this
Article. The Commission may exempt from the provisions of this Article
any milk sold for consumption in territory outside and not adjacent to
any market established in accordance with sub-section (e) of this section,
provided that such exemption does not constitute a menace to the public
health nor otherwise interfere with the enforcement of the provisions and
the accomplishment of the purposes of this Article.

(b) To investigate all matters pertaining to the production, transporta-
tion, processing, storage, distribution and sale of milk in this State. For
the purpose of such investigation or any hearing which the Commission is