WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 771

1943 Supplement), title "Time—Standard", said new section
to be known as Section 3, to follow immediately after Section
2 of said Article, and to read as follows:

3. Whenever any county, city, town or other political
sub-division of this State shall have adopted daylight saving
time, or any other variation from the standard time speci-
fied in this Article, such time shall, notwithstanding the
other provisions of this Article, be effective in such county,
city, town or other political sub-division during the period
provided for in the ordinance or resolution establishing
and adopting such daylight saving time or other time, and
all courts, public offices, and legal and official proceedings in
such county, city, town or other political sub-division shall
conform to and be regulated thereby. Whenever any public
general or public local law or ordinance shall prescribe
and fix any time for the opening or closing of offices, filing
of papers of any kind, or of any other activity, or shall pre-
scribe the opening and/or closing hours of any business or
business activities, such hours shall conform to the time
so adopted by any county, city, town or other political sub-
division of this State, within such county, city, town or other
political sub-division, to the same extent as if such time
had been specified in state law or ordinance, provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of
alcoholic beverages in Anne Arundel, Carroll and Washington
Counties.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and ordi-
nances inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be and
they are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 16, 1947.

CHAPTER 449.
(House Bill 702)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 1 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Allegany County", sub-title "Schools", said section to be