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appurtenances and recreational and pedagogical equipment
for such schools; and the term "public facilities" shall mean
the following:

(a) The construction, improvement, opening, relocation,
grading, resurfacing, widening, extension and drainage of all
public roads, streets, highways and sidewalks in the county
now or hereafter maintained and operated by or under the
jurisdiction of the county, including the acquisition of neces-
sary rights of ways, the acquisition of equipment for highway
construction, maintenance and planning and engineering
services; the planning, design, construction and reconstruc-
tion of free bridges constituting parts of said roads, streets^
or highways; the planning, construction and permanent im-
provement of any storm water drainage systems necessary
in the county;

(b) The construction, reconstruction, extension, improve-
ment, enlargement, alteration and modernization of public
buildings in the county which, in the discretion of the Board
of County Commissioners, are or may hereafter be needed
for the promotion or protection of the public health, safety r
welfare or morals or which said Board of County Commis-
sioners may decide are needed to house any branch, division,
function, property or activity of the county, including, with-
out limiting the generality of the foregoing, fire engine
houses, police stations, and the County Court House in Tow-
son, together with the acquisition and development of sites
therefor, the architectural and engineering services incident
thereto and the acquisition and installation of necessary fur-
nishings and fixed permanent equipment therefor.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate 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 June 1, 1948.

CHAPTER 34

(Senate Bill 40)

AN ACT to repeal Section 449 of Article 13 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County",
sub-title "Roads", as the same is contained in Higinbothom's
Code (legalized by Chapter 160 of the Acts of 1943), and