30                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 30

County (1957 Edition), being Article 13 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County", sub-title "County Com-
missioners", as said section was enacted by Chapter 300 of the Acts
of 1963, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

216B.

(a)  The Board of County Commissioners of Harford County is
hereby authorized to establish a Citizens Nursing Home Board of
Harford County; and if it shall establish such a board, it shall be
constituted and controlled as follows:

[(a)] The Board shall consist of ten members; and the initial
members shall be appointed by the County Commissioners, three
members to be appointed for three years, three for two years, three
for one year. Members shall be chosen from among the residents of
the county. The Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners
shall be a member of the Board ex officio. As the terms of the initial
appointees expire or as vacancies occur, their successors shall be
elected by a majority vote of a quorum of the Board for terms of
three years or the remainder thereof; and thereafter, these positions
shall be so filled.

(b)  The members of the Board shall serve without compensation.

(c)  The Board shall establish, maintain, and operate a nursing
or convalescent home or homes and any other facilities and services
necessary for the proper care and treatment of aged, convalescent,
and chronically ill residents of the county and shall have the following
powers and duties:

(1)  To accept gifts, legacies, bequests or endowments for purposes
of the Board. Unless otherwise specified by the donor making such
gift, legacy, bequest or endowment, the Board, in its discretion, may
expend both principal and income of any such gift, bequest, legacy
or endowment to support the Board's nursing home program;

(2)   To acquire and hold real and personal property in the name
of the County Commissioners by any means, to sell or otherwise
dispose of such property so acquired, and to preserve and administer
such properties;

(3)   To provide adequate facilities and services for the care and
treatment of the aged, convalescent, and chronically ill citizens of the
county. These facilities and services will or may include physical
care, medical, nursing, recreational, rehabilitative, special education,
and other similar activities, and, in addition, dissemination of in-
formation relative to causes and prevention of chronic and debilitat-
ing illnesses;

(4)  To charge such fees for admission to and maintenance in such
facilities and for use of such services as may support the facilities
and services subject, however, to the provision that where aged,
convalescent, and chronically ill residents of the county are in need
of such facilities and services and are sufficiently impecunious as to be
unable to pay the full cost of such care, then the charges to such
residents shall be in direct proportion to their ability to pay for the
services;

(5)   To apply all monies, assets, property or other things of value
it may receive to the general purposes of the Board;