1618 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 947
CHAPTER 947.
(House Bill 732)

AN ACT to add a new section to the Code of Public Local Laws
of Montgomery County (1989 Edition), being Article 16 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Mont-
gomery County", sub-title "County Commissioners and
Treasurer", said new section to be known as Section 185A
and to follow immediately after Section 185 of said Code,
conferring powers and authority on the Board of County
Commissioners of Montgomery County to enact ordinances
for Montgomery County relating to the peace, good govern-
ment, health, safety or welfare of said County, subject to
certain limitations, and providing for the publication of
such ordinances.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to the Code
of Public Local Laws of Montgomery County (1939 Edition),
being Article 16 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Montgomery County", sub-title "County Commissioners
and Treasurer", said new section to be known as Section 185A,
to follow immediately after Section 185 of said Code, and to
read as follows:

185A. The Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery
County in its discretion shall have full powers and authority
to enact ordinances for said County as it may deem necessary
for the peace, good government, health, safety, or welfare
of said County, and which are not inconsistent with the pro
visions of the Constitution or public general laws or public
local laws of the State of Maryland, subject, however, to the
following limitations and restrictions: (a) that said Board
shall not have power to license, regulate, prohibit, or submit
to local option, the manufacture or sale of alcoholic bev-
erages; (b) that nothing in this Act contained shall be con-
strued as a grant of additional powers to said Board to
authorize the issuance or renewal of any bonds, certificates,
notes or other evidences of indebtedness of said County, except
as now or hereafter provided by Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland; and (c) that no ordinance of general application
shall be enacted or adopted by the said Board of County Com-
missioners, under the powers conferred by this Act, until a
copy of said proposal has been advertised, in one or more news-
papers of general circulation published in said County, at least
once a week for two weeks, with an opportunity for a public
hearing thereon before adoption and upon the enactment of
any ordinance of general application as herein provided, the