194                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 166

CHAPTER 166

(Senate Bill 255)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 402 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Garrett County (1957 Edition,
being Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Garrett County", sub-title "Memorial Hospital", providing
for the incorporation of the Garrett County Memorial Hospital,
selection of the Board of Governors, and relating generally to
the Memorial Hospital of Garrett County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 402 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Garrett Coun-
ty (1957 Edition, being Article 12 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Garrett County", sub-title "Memorial
Hospital", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

402.

(a) For the purpose of operating the Garrett County Memorial
Hospital there is hereby created a board of Governors which shall
consist of the County Commissioners of Garrett County and eight
other persons, as follows: two persons residing in Garrett County,
one of whom shall be selected by the Board of Directors of each of
the two Oakland banks and shall serve for the period of one year
only unless again selected; the President of the Town Council of
Oakland; Mrs. Lorilla F. Tower or upon her death, resignation or
failure to act the President of the Garrett County Chapter of the
American Red Cross; one person to be elected by the Garrett County
Medical Association, if there be such, or upon its failure to function
or to act in the premises then by the Medical Staff of the Hospital,
the term of such person so elected to be for the period of one year
only unless re-elected; [and three members to be selected and ap-
pointed by the County Commissioners of Garrett County, one from
each of the three County Commissioner Districts of said county, who
shall also serve for the period of one year only unless re-appointed.]
and three members to be selected by the County Commissioners of
Garrett County, one from each of the three county commissioner dis-
tricts of said County, who shall be subject to approval by the hereto-
fore named board members, and who shall also serve for the period
of two years only unless re-appointed. The terms of all of the above
appointive members of the board shall begin on the first day of July,
[1953] 1959. The terms of the County Commissioners of Garrett
County, of the President of the Town Council of Oakland and the
President of the Garrett County Chapter of the American Red
Cross, as ex officio members, shall be co-extensive with their re-
spective terms of office and no longer.

Said Board of Governors shall be and is hereby made and con-
stituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the
Board of Governors of the Garrett County Memorial Hospital, and

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.