SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        377

the provisions of this subtitle. The Commission, with the SUBJECT
TO THE PRIOR approval of the County Commissioners, shall appoint
an assistant director of sanitary facilities who shall devote his full
time to the duties of assisting the Director of Sanitary Facilities in
performing his duties under this subtitle. The assistant director shall
MAY also be the secretary-treasurer of the Commission. The assistant
director shall be a qualified registered engineer in this State or hold
a graduate degree in hydrology and shall have five years experience in
sewer and water installation and supervision of such work. The Com-
mission shall appoint and discharge at its pleasure [a Secretary-
Treasurer, a chief engineer, and such other] such engineering, legal,
clerical and other personnel as the Commission shall deem necessary
at such wage or salary scales as may be approved by the County Com-
missioners. The Secretary-Treasurer [appointed by the Commission]
shall be the collector of all charges and [assessment] assessments
made by the Commission, and shall receive and account for all monies
which shall be due and payable to the Commission from any source
whatever. All monies deposited shall be protected by a depository
bond, or by such other securities as may be approved by the Commis-
sion. The Secretary-Treasurer shall give bond to the State of Mary-
land, to the amount of $20,000.00, with a good and sufficient surety to
be approved by the Commission, with the condition "that if the above
bounden shall well and faithfully execute his office and shall account
to the Commission for all monies which he shall receive for account
of the Commission, or be answerable for by law, then the said obliga-
tion to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and effect."
The bond, when approved, shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for Harford County; and the person so ap-
pointed, before entering upon the duties of his office shall take an
oath before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County, in form
similar to that taken by collectors of taxes, except as to the title
of the office. The Commission may pay the premiums on all bonds.
All checks issued by the Commission shall be signed by the Secretary-
Treasurer and countersigned by one member of the Commission.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved April 10, 1968.

CHAPTER 324
(House Bill 883)

AN ACT to waive the provisions of Section 10 of Chapter 504 of the
Acts of 1966, said section relating to the time by which projects
contained in the General Construction Loan of 1966 must be placed
under contract insofar as the provisions of said Section relate to
the items in Section 5 (H) (1) (b) and (c) in said Construction
Loan Act, which provides certain monies for the construction of a
State Branch Laboratory and State mental health clinical space as
part of a new Wicomico County Health Center, and a State Branch
Laboratory as part of a new Montgomery County Health Center.