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due until all of said notes, certificates or bonds shall have matured
and been redeemed. The taxes so levied shall be collected in the same
manner as other taxes are levied and collected in said county.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.

CHAPTER 486
(Senate Bill 433)

AN ACT to add new Sections 354 and 355 to Article 18 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Queen
Anne's County", to follow immediately after Section 353H thereof,
which section was added by Chapter 772 of the Acts of 1939;
Sections 354 and 355 thereof having been last repealed by Chapter
190 of the Acts of 1957 and to be under the new sub-title "Recrea-
tion and Parks", to create a Board of Recreation and Parks in
Queen Anne's County, to provide for its members, their powers
and duties, to provide for programs of public recreation and parks
in the county, to authorize the Board to appoint beautification,
cleanup and conservation committees and to define their powers
and duties.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 354 and 355 be and they are hereby added to
Article 18 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Queen Anne's County", to follow immediately after
Section 353H thereof, which section was added by Chapter 772 of
the Acts of 1939; Sections 354 and 355 thereof having been last
repealed by Chapter 190 of the Acts of 1957, and to be under the
new sub-title "Recreation and Parks", and to read as follows:

Recreation and Parks

(a)   The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County are
hereby authorized to establish a Board of Recreation and Parks with
powers and duties hereinafter specified.

(b)   The Board shall consist of seven members, appointed by the
County Commissioners, of whom one shall be first recommended by
the County Board of Education from its membership or otherwise,
and one of whom shall be a member of the Board of County Com-
missioners. All members of the Board, except the County Commis-
sioner member who shall serve for his elected term of office, shall
be appointed for four years from the first day of January of the
year of their appointments or until their successors are appointed.
The members of the Board, other than the County Commissioner
member, when first appointed, shall be divided into three classes.
The initial terms of those in the first class shall be for four years;
of those in the second class, three years; and of those in the third
class, two years. Vacancies, except those at the expiration of a term,

354.