GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1705

1937, ch. 331, sec. 17.

17. There is hereby established the Maryland Commission on Inter-
governmental Co-operation. This Commission shall be composed of fifteen
regular members, namely:

The five members of the Senate Committee on Intergovernmental
Co-operation.

The five members of the House Committee on Intergovernmental Co-op-
eration, and

The five members of the Governor's Committee on Intergovernmental
Co-operation.

The Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House
of Delegates shall be ex-officio honorary non-voting members of this Com-
mission. The Chairman of the Governor's Committee on Intergovern-
mental Co-operation shall be ex-officio Chairman of this Commission.

1937, ch. 331, sec. 18.

18. The said standing committee of the Senate and the said standing
committee of the House of Delegates shall function during the regular
sessions of the legislature and also during the. interim periods between
such sessions; their members shall serve until their successors are desig-
nated; and they shall respectively constitute for this State the Senate
Council and House Council of the American Legislators' Association. The
incumbency of each administrative member of this Commission shall ex-
tend until the first day of February next following his appointment, and
thereafter until his successor is appointed.

1937, ch. 331, sec. 19.

19. It shall be the function of this Commission:

(1) To carry forward the participation of this State as a member of
the Council of State Governments.

(2) To encourage and assist the legislative, executive, administrative
and judicial officials and employees of this State to develop and maintain
friendly contact by correspondence, by conference, and otherwise, with
officials and employees of the other States, of the Federal Government, and
of local units of government.

(3) To endeavor to advance cooperation between this State and other
units of government whenever it seems advisable to do so by formulating
proposals for, and by facilitating:

(a) The adoption of compacts,

(b) The enactment of uniform or reciprocal statutes,
(c) The adoption of uniform or reciprocal administrative rules or
regulations,

(d) The informal cooperation of governmental offices with one another,

(e) The personal cooperation of governmental officials and emplovees
with one another, individually,

(f) The interchange and clearance of research and information, and

(g) Any other suitable process.

(4) In short, to do all such acts as will, in the opinion of this Com-
mission, enable this State to do its part—or more than its part in form-
ing a more perfect union among the various governments in the United
States and in developing the Council of State Governments for this pur-
pose.