WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 2201

ceding section, said County Commissioners may in its Zon-
ing Regulations, provide that the Zoning Commissioner may,
in appropriate cases and subject to appropriate principles,
standards, rules, conditions and safeguards set forth in the
Regulations, make special exceptions to the provisions of the
Zoning Regulation in harmony with their general purposes
and intent, and in cases where the inherent character of the
use requires that it be carried on in a district or area to
which it does not conform, or where the use has a peculiar
tendency to impair the health, safety and morals of the pub-
lic, the County Commissioners shall, in its Zoning Regu-
lations, require a special permit from the Zoning Commis-
sioner for such use, provided that the issuance of such special
permits shall be subject to appropriate principles, standards,
rules, conditions and safeguards set forth in the regulations,
and that all decisions of the Zoning Commissioner with
respect to such special permits, shall be subject to appeal
to the Board of Zoning Appeals. The uses for which special
permits are required by Section XIII. of the Zoning Regula-
tions of Baltimore County, as adopted January 2, 1945, and
as amended November 15, 1946, are hereby declared to be
within the authority and power conferred upon the County
Commissioners by the preceding sentence; and it is hereby
declared to be the intention of the General Assembly to con-
firm and validate the requirement of a special permit from
the Zoning Commissioner for each such use, and the prin-
ciples, standards, rules, conditions and safeguards for the
issuance of such special permits as now set forth in Section
XIII. of the said Zoning Regulations, as amended, including
all classifications appearing therein. The County Commis-
sioners, in adopting and amending the present Zoning Regu-
lations in Baltimore County, including all amendments
thereto heretofore made, shall be deemed to have and to have
exercised the police power of the State of Maryland within
the limits of Baltimore County, to the fullest extent that
such power could be granted or conferred upon said Com-
missioners by the General Assembly, and all the present
Zoning Regulations of Baltimore County are hereby con-
firmed and validated in their entirety, to the same extent as if
the amendments made by this Act had been included in this
Section at the time of its enactment by Chapter 877 of the
Acts of 1943.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this
Act shall be taken or construed to mean that in the absence
of this Act, the provisions of the aforesaid Section 72C of
Article 3 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland could be
properly otherwise construed.