THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     985

that no salary shall be paid to the Chairman or members of the
Planning Board.

446.    The Planning Board shall hold at least one regular meeting
a month, and specially called meetings may be held at any time, at
the call of the chairman. The Planning Board shall adopt rules for
the transaction of business. It shall hold hearings at its discretion
or upon the written request of any member of the Board of County
Commissioners on any particular matter pending before the Planning
Board. It shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, find-
ings, determinations and decisions, and it shall keep minutes of its
proceedings, all of which shall be filed in the office of the Planning
Board and shall be a public record.

447.    The County Commissioners after receiving recommenda-
tions from the Planning Board shall appoint a Director and a Deputy
Director and fix their salaries. The Director shall have a term of six
years and shall be removed only for incompetence or gross neglect
of duty. The Director shall be a person of wide and varied experi-
ence in the field of planning, shall be a graduate of a university
recognized in the field of planning and shall have had at least ten
years' experience, five years of which shall have been in responsible
charge of planning activities. The Deputy Director shall be a gradu-
ate of a university recognized in the field of planning and shall have
had not less than five years of responsible experience in the field of
planning.

448.    The Planning Board may subject to the approval of the
Board of County Commissioners, contract with planners, engineers,
architects, and other consultants and specialists for such services as
it may require. The Planning Board may, subject to the wpproval of
the said County Commissioners, require the assistance of any other
department or sub-department or employee of the County.

449.    The Planning Board shall prepare, and after public hearing,
adopt and from time to time amend a Master Plan for the physical
development of Baltimore County, which generally shall comprise
land use, circulation, and a report or reports presenting the objec-
tives, assumptions, standards and principles which are embodied in
the interlocking portions of the Master Plan. The Master Plan shall
be a composite of mapped and written proposals to guide the physi-
cal development of Baltimore County which the Planning Board
shall have adopted, either as a whole or severally, and either for the
entire County or for any logical unit for planning therein, after
public hearing. Such Master Plan may include proposals for various
stages in the future development of Baltimore County.

450.    In scope the Master Plan may cover proposals for: (1) uses
of land and buildings: residential, commercial, industrial, mining,
agricultural, park and other like matters; (2) services: water sup-
ply, utilities, sewerage, and other like matters; (3) transportation:
streets, parking, public transit, freight facilities, airports and other
like matters; (4) housing: residential standards, slum clearance and
redevelopment, and other like matters; (5) conservation: water,
forest, soil, flood control, and other like matters; (6) public and
semi-public facilities: civic center, schools, libraries, parks, play-
grounds, fire houses, police structures, hospitals and other like mat-