1478                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 799

of the Acts of 1949, amending the powers of the Board of Public
COUNTY Commissioners of Harford County as to the fixing of
daylight saving time.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 490A of the Code of Harford County (1942 Edition),
being Article 13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Harford County," sub-title "Time," said section having been enacted
by Chapter 24 of the Acts of 1949, be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

490A. 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 Harford County are authorized and
empowered 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 Standard Daylight Saving Time." Provided, how-
ever, that the Board of County Commissioners by ordinance or reso-
lution passed not less than fifteen days before the change would be-
come 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
two A. M. on the last Sunday in March or back to two A. M. on the
last Sunday in October or both such changes or any portion or por-
tions of either. Any such extension may 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 Com-
missioners thereby have caused inconvenience and annoyance to the
commercial, economic, industrial or social affairs of the residents of
Harford 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 Commissioners, 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 15, 1957.

CHAPTER 799
(House Bill 757)

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 468 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of the year 1931, and to abolish and discontinue the

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.