THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     715

State Fiscal Research Bureau a comprehensive statement of financial
condition AS required by Section 126 of Article 41 of this Code (1951
Edition as amended), and the Director of the Fiscal Research Bureau
shall have reasonable cause to suppose that the municipal corporation
is no longer actively operating as such under its charter, and the State
Auditor shall certify that the municipal corporation has no obliga-
tions or debts outstanding and unpaid, the Director of the Fiscal
Research Bureau shall promptly certify all such facts to the Secretary
of State. Upon receiving such a certification, the Secretary of State
shall forthwith issue a public proclamation, declaring that the charter
of the municipal corporation, including all amendments and additions
thereto, is repealed under the provisions of this section. Copies of the
proclamation shall be filed by the Secretary of State with the Clerk
of the Court of Appeals, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County
in which the municipal corporation is located, and the Department of
Legislative Reference. Upon the first day of the month next after
the issue of any such proclamation, the charter of the town, including
all amendments and additions thereto, shall be and the same is hereby
declared to be repealed from. FROM such latter date, the municipal
corporation shall not be construed to be or treated as a municipal cor-
poration and the charter so repealed shall no longer be included in any
subsequent edition or printing of the Code of Public Local Laws of the
State or of the particular County. If no other disposal of the prop-
erty and, assets AND LIABILITIES of the municipal corporation
has previously been made by the proper officers of the municipal
corporation, the Board of County Commisioners or the County
Council of the County in which the municipal corporation is located,
shall succeed to full ownership, title and control of the property and
assets after the charter stands repealed AND SHALL BE RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR LIQUIDATION OF THE INDEBTEDNESS OF
SAID MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AS PROVIDED IN SECTION
43 OF THIS SUB-TITLE.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT IF ANY
WORD, CLAUSE, PHRASE, SECTION OR PROVISION OF THIS
ACT SHALL BE DECLARED TO BE INVALID OR UNCONSTITU-
TIONAL BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION, SUCH
INVALIDITY OR UNCONSTITUTIONALLY SHALL EXTEND
ONLY TO THE PARTICULAR WORD, PHRASE, CLAUSE, SEC-
TION OR PROVISION AND TO THE PARTICULAR SETS OF
CIRCUMSTANCES INVOLVED AND SHALL NOT EXTEND TO
ANY OTHER PART OR PARTS OF THIS ACT OR TO ANY OTHER
SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES.

SEC. 2 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate pres-
ervation 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 Mary-
land, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 18, 1955.