STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE 3201

Any person or persons and any officer or representative of an institu-
tion, agency or society which assumes or exercises the care, custody or
control of minor children or the aged in violation of this Section shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject
to a fine not to exceed $100 or imprisonment not to exceed three months.
See art. 27, sec. 458, et seq., and sec. 684, et seq.

1935, ch. 586, sec. 80. 1937, ch. 490. 1939, chs. 99 and 240, sec. 80.

11. The State Department may, with the approval of the Board, desig-
nate existing agencies or organizations within the State as its agents as
may in its discretion be desirable or necessary for the purpose of this
Article. In the selection of agencies or organizations for the care of chil-
dren, the State Department shall use only such as shall comply with
proper standards for the physical, educational and moral life of the child.
Children shall be placed in institutions or homes of the same religious
faith as that of the child if there be such institution or home with proper
standards.

1935, ch. 586, sec. 8D. 1939, chs. 99 and 240, sec. 8D.

12. The State Department of Public Welfare shall be empowered to
create or continue in each county a County Welfare Board to be known
as such with the name of the county prefixed thereto, which Board shall
be an administrative department of the local government. Such Boards
shall have authority to administer Aid to Dependent Children, Old Age
Assistance, Public Assistance to the Needy Blind and General Public
Assistance, Child Welfare Services under Section 521 (a) of the Social
Security Act, the investigation and certification of persons eligible for
employment on projects of the Works Progress Administration, Public
Works Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps, and such Boards
shall have authority to administer, handle and distribute Federal surplus
commodities in accordance with the rules of the State Department of
Public Welfare, as well as work relief and services to families and indi-
viduals in need, and the care of neglected, dependent and delinquent chil-
dren, which care shall include the rendering of probation service to juvenile
courts or other courts having jurisdiction over minors.

Administrative costs of the County Welfare Boards for the purpose of
this Section shall be paid out of funds derived from local sources or out
of allotments from State funds, or both, as the State Department of Public
Welfare may prescribe. The County Commissioners and the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore are hereby empowered and directed to levy for
or appropriate such funds, from time to time, as may be necessary for this
purpose.

1935, ch. 586, sec. 8E. 1939, chs. 99 and 240, sec. 8E.

13. Each County Welfare Board shall consist of seven persons, one
of whom shall be a County Commissioner of the county in which such
Board is to function. Said County Commissioner shall be an ex-officio
member of the Board, and each year the Board of County Commissioners
shall designate which of its members shall so serve. All members of the
County Boards shall serve without pay.

The members of each County Board, aside from the County Commis-
sioner serving thereon, who are in office at the effective date of this Act,