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a. To recommend measures to local authorities for the pre-
vention of delinquency among children.

b. To propose to the Judge such policies and procedures as
may be deemed advisable for governing and improving the
work of the Court.

c. To recommend regulations for the operation of receiving
homes and places of detention where children may be kept
either before or after hearing.

d. To develop plans and procedures under which the services
of governmental and social service agencies represented on the
Committee may be made available to the Court and to children
coming before the Court.

Members of the committee shall serve during their tenure
in the designated office, except for the psychologist, the mem-
ber of the Planning Council, and the clergymen. These mem-
bers shall serve for terms of two years, commencing on the
first Monday of May of each odd numbered year.

834. (Jurisdiction.) Except as otherwise provided, while
sitting under the provisions of this sub-title, the Trial Magis-
trate for Prince George's County shall have jurisdiction, to
the exclusion of all other Justices of the Peace in Prince
George's County, in proceedings:

a. Concerning any child in the County:

1. Who is without proper supervision, care or custody.

2. Whose occupation, behavior, environment, or associations
are injurious to his welfare.

3. Who deserts his home or who is habitually disobedient
or beyond the control of his parent or other custodian.

4. Who wilfully and unlawfully absents himself from school.

5. Who violates any law or ordinance, or who commits any
act which, if committed by an adult, would be a crime, not
punishable by death or life imprisonment. This section shall
not be deemed to include violations of the Motor Vehicle laws,
except manslaughter by automobile, unauthorized use or
occupancy of a motor vehicle, or operating a motor vehicle
while under the influence of intoxicating liquors or drugs,
which offenses shall be within the jurisdiction of the Juvenile
Court.

b. Concerning any minor eighteen years of age or older
charged with having violated in the County any law or ordi-
nance before becoming eighteen years of age. Such a minor