1092                             Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 674

CHAPTER 674
(House Bill 746)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 566 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel County (1947 Edi-
tion, being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Anne Arundel County," sub-title "Time," authorizing the
Board of County Commissioners to make certain changes in the
variation from standard time, known generally as daylight saving
time.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 566 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel
County (1947 Edition, being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Anne Arundel County," sub-title "Time,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

566. For the period of each year from two A. M. on the last Sunday
in April until two A. M. of the last Sunday in September, the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel County are authorized and directed
to fix, by ordinance or resolution, the official time of said county at one
hour in advance of the standard time of the seventy-fifth meridian,
which advance in said standard time is commonly called "Eastern
Daylight Saving Time." Provided, however, that the Board of County
Commissioners, by ordinance or resolution passed in less than fifteen
days before the change would become effective, may extend the period
during which the one-hour variation from standard time shall be
effective in any year or years. The extension may be to change the
advance in time up to 2 o'clock A. M. on the last Sunday in March or
back to 2 o'clock A. M. on the last Sunday in October, or both such
changes, or any portion or portions of either. Any such extension
shall be provided only if other counties, municipalities or sections of
the United States shall have made such a change and, in the opinion
of the Board of County Commissioners, thereby have caused incon-
venience and annoyance to the commercial, economic, industrial or
social affairs of the residents of Anne Arundel County. If the
County Commissioners so advance the official time of said county,
all courts, public offices, legal and official proceedings, insofar as the
same are subject to or under the control of said County Commis-
sioners, shall be regulated thereby, and all time shown by the public
clocks shall agree therewith.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation 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 Maryland, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1957.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.