924 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 493

The organization of the Department of Public Works
shall consist of the Director of Public Works of Baltimore
County as Chairman, the divisions or sub-departments
which may be created under the general authority of this
section and the following County offices which shall be con-
sidered sub-departments of the Department of Public
Works:

Roads Engineer

Building Engineer

Chief Sanitary Engineer of the Metropolitan District

Supervisor of Garbage and Cleaning

County Surveyor

Zoning Commissioner.

All of said sub-departments shall continue to perform
and to execute the duties and obligations, and to exercise
the rights, powers, functions and privileges now or here-
after conferred upon them by any public local or public
general laws, excepting that all of said sub-department
shall be subject to the control, supervision and direction of
the [Chief Engineer of Baltimore County] Director of
Public Works. Said [Chief Engineer] Director of Public
Works shall be the final arbiter of all questions and con-
troversies of any kind or nature that may arise within, be-
tween or among any of said sub-departments. The said
[Chief Engineer] Director of Public Works shall have
power to call together for consultation, whenever he deems
it advisable, any or all of the sub-departments, including
not only the heads thereof, but any of the employees thereof.
Upon request of any sub-department, or any other party in
interest, he shall call together any officials or employees
under his jurisdiction, to discuss and give their opinions
upon any engineering question that may arise or be pre-
sented for his determination, and in the event of any con-
troversy between or among any of the sub-departments, he
shall give opportunity to both sides to be heard before him-
self and the executive officers of the Department of Public
Works, except that no representative of a sub-department
involved in the matter to be heard shall sit in said cause,
and provided further, that the recommendations of said
Board in any such matter shall be advisory only, and shall
in no manner affect the final authority or decision herein
committed to the [Chief Engineer] Director of Public
Works.

The [Chief Engineer] Director of Public Works shall

have power and it shall be his duty to coordinate the func-
tions and operations of the sub-departments constituting