J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      955

FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS, AND WILLIAM S. MILES FOR
A TERM OF FIVE YEARS. THEREAFTER, APPOINTMENTS
TO THE COMMISSION SHALL BE FOR TERMS OF FIVE
YEARS EACH.

(b)  Members of the Commission shall not be paid any compensa-
tion for their services, but may be remunerated for reasonable ex-
penses incurred in their duties. The Board of County Commissioners
of Worcester County shall pay the proper and necessary expenses of
the Commission. A quorum of the Commission shall be any three
FOUR members thereof, but no permit may be issued and no reso-
lution may be adopted under this section without the affirmative vote
of at least three FOUR members of the Commission.

(c)   The Commission shall have the duty of regulating and deter-
mining bulkhead lines, shorelines, and fill lines along the shorelines
of Worcester County. No person, association, or corporation may
construct or reconstruct a bulkhead, or change a shoreline, or make
a fill, along the shorelines, without a permit for such work from the
Commission.

(d)  Application for any such permit shall be made to the Com-
mission, on forms prepared by it, giving full details of the proposed
work or construction. The Commission thereupon shall set a time
and place for a public hearing on the application, to be at least
fifteen days later, at which the applicant and any other interested
person may offer information and testimony.

(e)  If on the basis of the application and the hearing the Com-
missioners determine that the proposed work or construction will
be of economic or commercial benefit to the county, will not harm
the shoreline or navigation in the waters of the county, will not cause
undue damage to the marine life of the county, or will improve the
recreational facilities and potential of the county, they shall approve
the application and issue a permit for the work or construction.
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, ANY PERSON, ASSOCIATION, OR
CORPORATION BEING ISSUED SUCH A PERMIT SHALL
WITHIN 90 DAYS FROM THE DATE THEREOF, HAVE RE-
CORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF WORCESTER
COUNTY A PLAT CERTIFIED BY A LICENSED SURVEYOR,
OR A LICENSED ENGINEER, SHOWING IN DETAIL THE
WORK OR CONSTRUCTION DONE OR TO BE DONE AS A
RESULT OF SAID PERMIT BEING GRANTED.

(f)  Any person aggrieved by an action of the Commission in either
issuing or failing to issue a permit for any such proposed work or
construction may appeal therefrom, within twenty-one days, to the
Circuit Court for Worcester County. The Court shall hear all parties
at interest in the appeal and shall consider the case de novo; and
shall promptly determine the issue, either approving, rejecting, or
modifying the action of the Commission.

(g)  Any person, association, or corporation who proceeds with
any of the work or construction to which this section applies, without
a permit from the Commission or, upon appeal, from the Circuit
Court, is guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof is
subject to a fine of not more than fifty dollars for every day on which
the work or construction, or any part of it, proceeds or is allowed
to stand.