THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 925

the Department of Public Works, to the end that all un-
necessary waste and duplication of effort may be eliminated.
He shall see to it that no sub-department unnecessarily
maintains duplicate equipment or personnel for work which
should be centralized in one bureau and is empowered to
centralize any such unnecessary duplication of work or
personnel in one or more sub-departments for the purpose
of eliminating such duplication and likewise shall have
power to assign and re-assign equipment from the custody
of one sub-department to another sub-department, as he
may deem expedient. All NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
CONTRARY provisions of Public Local Law concerning
public works construction, preparation, approval and signa-
ture of plats, drawings, deeds, or other documents by the
Roads Engineer, Chief Sanitary Engineer or other sub-
departments of the Department of Public Works, THE
SAME shall be subject to re-assignment by the Director of
Public Works with the approval of the County Commis-
sioners to any division which may be created for the pur-
pose of consolidating such operations as design, drafting,
construction, inspection, maintenance operations, land
acquisition, etc., in the interest of efficiency and economy.

The [Chief Engineer of Baltimore County] Director of
Public Works shall have supervision over all engineering
questions and over all matters concerned or connected with
any and every public improvement in Baltimore County or
elsewhere, made by the County Commissioners of Balti-
more County or any department, office, board, commis-
sion or agency thereof, and all plans and specifications of
such public improvements shall be submitted to the said
[Chief Engineer] Director of Public Works and be subject
to his approval.

The [Chief Engineer of Baltimore County] Director of
Public Works shall perform such additional duties as may
be required of him by the County Commissioners of Balti-
more County and said County Commissioners shall have
full and complete authority to reverse, alter or amend in
any way, any decision of the [Chief Engineer of Baltimore
County] Director of Public Works.

The [Chief Engineer of Baltimore County] Director of
Public Works shall have the power to assign and re-assign
to and take from the sub-departments of the Department of
Public Works the performance of any duties or the exer-
cise of any powers incident to the conduct of the De-
partment of Public Works as may seem to said [Chief
Engineer] Director of Public Works to be necessary and