SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       477

Thereafter, each appointment made to said commission shall, at a
meeting held not later than one month prior to June first in each
year in which a vacancy occurs, be made by said governing body
for a term of six years from June first next succeeding.

The sole purpose of this section is to enlarge the membership of
the existing commission to seven members to more effectively carry
out the provisions of this subtitle, and neither this section or the
action of said governing body in appointing four additional mem-
bers provided for herein shall be construed to alter, abrogate, change
or affect in any way any contract, agreement, obligation, commit-
ment or undertaking to which the commission is now a party, or in
which the commission is presently engaged.

649.

(a) (2-1) The Somerset County sanitary commission appointed
pursuant to the first paragraph above shall be enlarged from three
citizens of such county to five citizens of such county, no one of
whom shall hold any other office of said county during his term of
office on said commission. As of July 1, 1968, the governing body
of Somerset County shall appoint the two additional members of the
commission provided for herein, whose terms of office shall com-
mence on the date of appointment, one of whom shall serve four
years and one for two years for their appointment. At the expira-
tion of each of said terms, the county governing body shall, at a
meeting held not later than one month prior to July first in each
year in which a vacancy occurs, appoint as a member of the com-
mission a citizen of the county for which the district is created, for
a term of six years, to succeed the member whose term expires on
June first next succeeding.

There shall be no alteration in the existing method of appoint-
ments at the expiration of the existing commission in Somerset
County.

The sole purpose of this change as relating to Somerset County
is to enlarge the membership of the existing commission to five
members to more effectively carry out the provisions of this subtitle,
and neither these provisions or the action of the said governing
body in appointing two additional members provided for herein shall
be construed to alter, abrogate, change, or affect in any way any
contract, agreement, obligation, commitment or undertaking to which
the commission is now a party, or in which the commission is pres-
ently engaged.

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

Approved April 10, 1968.

CHAPTER 412
(House Bill 1353)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 12-12 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County (1963