J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor 211

Emergency Powers of Administration

34* If, by reason of any military or warlike catastrophe, a
majority of the members of the governing body, by whatever name
known, of any special tax area or special tax district (INCLUDING
A SANITARY DISTRICT OR WATER DISTRICT) in this State
are killed, or are sick, incapacitated, missing, or otherwise unavail-
able for either a temporary or an indefinite period, with the result
that for a temporary or an indefinite period the tax area or tax
district (INCLUDING A SANITARY DISTRICT OR WATER
DISTRICT) is unable to function normally, the Governor may exer-
cise any of the executive and administrative powers of the tax area
or tax district (INCLUDING A SANITARY DISTRICT OR
WATER DISTRICT) until such time as according to the particular
manner of filling vacancies in the governing body of the tax area or
district, (INCLUDING A SANITARY DISTRICT OR WATER
DISTRICT) a number of persons sufficient to operate it are ap-
pointed to the vacancies and have qualified. The powers provided in
this section exist and may be exercised only during the effective
period of an official proclamation by the Governor, declaring a por-
tion or all of the tax area or tax district (INCLUDING A SANI-
TARY DISTRICT OR WATER DISTRICT) to be within a civil
defense or disaster area, actual or threatened.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1962.

Approved March 23, 1962.

CHAPTER 60
(Senate Bill 120)

AN ACT to add a new Section 35 to Article 16A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Civil Defense", (said Ar-
ticle 16A having been added to the Code by legislation enacted at
the 1962 session of the General Assembly), said new Section 35 to
follow immediately after Section 34 thereof, and to be under the
new sub-title "County Powers", providing that the several coun-
ties of this State shall have certain emergency and extraordinary
powers in the event the Governor of Maryland because of any mili-
tary or warlike catastrophe has officially proclaimed part or all of
a county to be within a civil defense emergency or disaster area,
actual or threatened; and providing generally for the powers and
procedures in the exercise of these emergency and extraordinary
authorizations.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new Section 35 be and it is hereby added to Article 16A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Civil Defense",
(said Article 16A having been added to the Code by legislation en-
acted at the 1962 session of the General Assembly), this new Section
35 to follow immediately after Section 34 thereof and to be under the
new sub-title "County Powers", and to read as follows: