642 LAWS OP MARYLAND [CH. 251

one week after said publication shall be in full force and effect
until repealed by said Board of Managers and shall be per-
manently filed in the Village office and shall be available for
public inspection at any reasonable time.

(b) The Board of Managers is also empowered to provide
reasonable and proper penalties for violations of the ordi-
nances governing Chevy Chase Village; and the Board of
Managers may, in addition, enforce such ordinances by crimi-
nal prosecution, bring suit in the circuit court of Montgomery
County, or in any other court deemed to have jurisdiction, in
the name of Chevy Chase Village, to obtain a decree, order or
judgment of that court, compel by injunction, or otherwise,
compliance by any person or persons with such ordinance or
ordinances.

(c) Any trial magistrate in Montgomery County shall have
the jurisdiction to try any criminal case with respect to the
violations of such ordinances, and to impose the penalty pre-
scribed by the Board of Managers. The prosecution of viola-
tors of such ordinances shall be conducted in the same manner
as violators of county ordinances are prosecuted and the
State's attorney or his assistants shall have the power and the
duty to prosecute any violators of said ordinances. The sheriff,
his deputy, or the county police, shall have the authority to
arrest for any violation of ordinances, and to execute all writs
issued by any trial magistrate having jurisdiction in connec-
tion with said ordinance or ordinances, or with the punishment
of persons violating them.

86B (122-15). (Succession Clause. ) Chevy Chase Village, is
hereby declared to be the legal successor of Chevy Chase
Village, the Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers and the
Chevy Chase Citizens Committee, Sections 1, 2, and part of 1-a,
and shall be entitled to, and is hereby invested with all the
property and rights thereunder whatsoever belonging to those
said bodies. All proceedings now being in the name of those
said bodies shall be continued and shall remain unaffected by
the passage of this Act.

The members of the Board of Managers holding office at the
date of this Act shall hold their office as the members of the
Board of Managers of Chevy Chase Village until their succes-
sors are elected, or appointed, and qualified as hereinbefore
provided.

All ordinances, regulations and resolutions in force and not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall remain in
force until altered or replaced.

No provision of this Act shall affect any right, lien or liabil-
ity subsisting at the date of its passage.