910                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 653

(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Water Resources", sub-title
"Appropriation of Waters; Reservoirs and Dams", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and to read as follows:

15.

As soon as convenient after the filing with the Department of any
application for a permit to appropriate or use any waters of the
State, or to construct or reconstruct or repair any reservoir, dam
or waterway obstruction, in any waters of the State under the
provisions of this sub-title, the Department shall set a day for a
public hearing upon said application. The applicant shall give notice
to the public of such application and hearing, either in the manner
prescribed by the Department, or by publication once in each week
for two successive weeks prior to said hearing in a daily newspaper
published in the city or cities, county or counties, or in a weekly
newspaper of general circulation in the city or cities, county or
counties, which the Department shall determine may be directly
affected by the proposed appropriation or use, or construction, re-
construction or repair. The county commissioners of each such
county, the mayor or chief execution officials of each such city and
the proper officials of any interested agency of the State, or political
subdivision thereof, shall also be notified by the applicant by regis-
tered mail. In the public notice of such application, the date, place and
time fixed by the Department for the public hearing on said applica-
tion shall be stated. At such public hearing, the applicant and any
other interested person or corporation, municipal or private, shall
be given an opportunity to present facts, evidence and arguments
for or against the granting of said application. In case of emergency,
or the making of minor repairs, the Department may, upon written
or oral application, grant applications to repair any reservoir, dam
or waterway obstruction without notice or hearing; provided, how-
ever, that repairs necessary to save life or property may be made
without such application, but notice thereof shall be given promptly
to the Department.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965,

CHAPTER 653
(Senate Bill 424)

AN ACT to add new Section 164A to the Code of Public Local Laws
of Worcester County (1961 Edition, being Article 24 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Worcester County", to
follow immediately after Section 164 thereof, and to be under the
new sub-title "Land Records", to prevent title insurance companies
or their agents from filing deeds or other papers involving an
interest in any land in Worcester County, unless represented by
a member of the county bar, and providing that such companies
may continue to insure title to lands in the county.