J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      945

Commissioners", subtitle "General Provisions", to extend to the
County Commissioners of Charles County specified powers enu-
merated in State law, and to exclude certain powers from this
grant of powers to the Commissioners of Charles County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 3(a), (o), (q), (t), and (u) of Article 25 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1965 Supplement), title
"County Commissioners", subtitle "General Provisions", be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

3.

(a) The county commissioners of each county in this State, except
Worcester, Kent, Caroline, (except as hereinbelow provided), Alle-
gany, except as specifically provided in subsection (s), Prince
George's, Washington, Somerset, Dorchester, Baltimore, Anne Arun-
del, Cecil, [Charles (except as provided in subsection (bb)),]
Howard, Frederick and Queen Anne's counties, in addition to, but
not in substitution of, the powers which have been or may hereafter
be granted them, shall have the following express powers:

(o) To provide for grading, paving, regrading, repaving, curb-
ing, recurbing, or repairing any road or sidewalk now or hereafter
condemned, ceded, opened, widened, extended or straightened as
public property and for levying for the cost thereof on the assess-
able basis of the county or providing for the payment of the cost
thereof from the county's share of the State gasoline tax; and
to provide for establishing the office of county roads engineer, and
defining the duties and powers thereof. The powers of the County
Commissioners of Charles County are controlled by the provisions

of the local laws of the county and not by the provisions of this

subsection. IN CHARLES COUNTY THE CONSTRUCTION, RE-
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF COUNTY ROADS
IS PERFORMED BY THE STATE ROADS COMMISSION AS
PROVIDED IN SECTIONS 220, 221 AND 222 OF ARTICLE 89B
OF THIS CODE, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, AND
THE POWERS OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, INSOFAR
AS NOT GOVERNED BY THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 89B,
ARE CONTROLLED BY THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 280
THROUGH 290, INCLUSIVE, OF THE CODE OF PUBLIC LOCAL
LAWS OF CHARLES COUNTY, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO
TIME, AND NOT BY THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBSECTION.

(q) To provide for the appointment of county police and to pre-
scribe their duties and fix their compensation, but said commission-
ers may appoint a special commission or commissioner to be in
charge of said county police. The provisions of this subsection shall
not be applicable in [Wicomico County], Charles and Wicomico
counties.

(t) To make reasonable regulations in regard to buildings and
signs to be erected, constructed, or reconstructed in the county, and
to grant building permits for the same; to formulate a building code,
plumbing code, or electrical code and to provide for inspections for
and enforcement of such codes and to require reasonable charges
for permits and inspections; to authorize and require the inspec-
tion of all buildings and structures and to authorize the condem-