J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           837

any person convicted thereof before a trial magistrate or another
court of proper jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not less
than ten dollars or more than five hundred dollars or by imprison-
ment of not less than thirty or more than ninety days, or both.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 28, 1959.

CHAPTER 588
(Senate Bill 366)

AN ACT to add fifty new sections to Article 25 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "County Commissioners",
said new sections to be known as Sections 169 to 218 of said Ar-
ticle, to follow immediately after Section 168 thereof and to be
under the new sub-title "Public Watershed Associations", author-
izing the "County Commissioners", and "County Councils" of the
State and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide
for the planning and carrying out of works of improvement for
flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization,
and disposal of water in watershed and sub-watershed areas and
for cooperating with local, county, State and Federal agencies in
carrying out the provisions of the act by establishing Public
Watershed Associations and prescribing the duties and functions
of said associations, and pertaining generally to watershed areas
of the State.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That fifty new sections be and they are hereby added to Article 25
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "County
Commissioners", said new sections to be known as Sections 169 to
218 of this Article, to follow immediately after Section 168 thereof
and to be under the new sub-title "Public Watershed Associations",
and all to read as follows:

Public Watershed Associations

169(a). The Board of County Commissioners or the County
Council of the several counties of Maryland, and the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore City, shall have jurisdiction, power, and
authority to establish Public Watershed Associations in their re-
spective counties or Baltimore City for the purpose of carrying out
works of improvement for flood prevention or the conservation, de-
velopment, utilization, and disposal of water in watershed or sub-
watershed areas including but not limited to flood protection, stor-
age of water, adequate drainage facilities, and the protection of
areas subject to sediment or erosion damages, and to cooperate with
local, county, State, and Federal agencies; and it is hereby declared
that such flood prevention or the conservation, development, utili-
zation, and disposal of water is a public benefit and conducive to the
public health, safety, and welfare.