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gomery County, annually, a certified copy of such detailed audit and
financial statement.

(b)   Said Commission is authorized to formulate and adopt a pen-
sion or retirement plan for its employees including the right to con-
tract with any established insurance company or insurance companies
for a group, annuity, retirement or pension plan, and to contribute
so much thereto as it may deem equitable, or be required to pay under
any contract, and such contribution or payment shall be charged as
expenses of the several departments of the Commission in the same
proportion that the receipts of the respective department bear to the
total receipts of the Commission.

(c)   The General Assembly of Maryland hereby finds, determines
and declares that the term "Municipal Corporation" in Article HE
of the Constitution of Maryland does not embrace or include the
Washington Suburban Sanitary District which was incorporated by
Chapter 122 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of
1918, that the Washington Suburban Sanitary District cannot be
classified in any group of Municipal Corporations as required by
said Article HE, and that said Article HE theretofore has no ap-
plication to the Washington Suburban Sanitary District.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the terms of members of
the Commission in office on the effective date of this Act shall not
expire but shall be continued without interruption.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety, and having been passed
by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 18, 1965.

CHAPTER 173
(Senate Bill 570)

AN ACT relating to the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission; to repeal and re-enact, with amendments,
Sections 59-2, 59-3, and 59-4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Prince George's County (1963 Edition, being Article 17 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Prince George's
County", sub-title "59. Park and Planning Commission"; these
sections being also Sections 72-6, 72-7 and 72-8 of the Montgomery
County Code, 1960 (being Article 16 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Montgomery County", sub-title "Chapter
72. Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission",
sub-heading "Article I—In General"; to change the manner of
appointing and confirming members of the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission from Prince George's
County, to continue the terms of such members of the Commission
in office on the effective date of this Act, to change the manner