2674                               Municipal Charters

be appointed for a term of one year, two for a term of three years and
two for a term of five years. Thereafter all appointments or reappointments
shall be for a term of five years; except, that an appointment to fill
a vacancy occurring before the expiration of a term shall be for the re-
mainder of the unexpired term. The board shall serve without compensa-
tion.

The building inspector or his designated representatives shall be one
of the five members. The fire marshal or his representative shall also
be a member of the board. The other three members shall include a
professional engineer and an architect or builder. No more than two
shall be chosen from the same business or profession.

Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum to do business.
The board shall select its own chairman. Action by the Board shall
be by written resolution.

The board shall have authority to grant modifications of this Code
to permit the use of building materials or building techniques not other-
wise permitted; provided, however, that the new materials or techniques
will be equal to the minimum requirements set forth in this Code; to
approve or disapprove new standards of specifications as may be pro-
mulgated by the Building Officials Conference or its accredited authori-
tative agency and if approved recommend their adoption by the county
as a part of the Building Code; and to hear appeals concerning build-
ings which have been determined by the building inspector as unsafe
or uninhabitable. (See Fire Code for Unsafe Buildings Caused by Fire,
Storm, Explosion, etc., and appeals therefrom.)

Applications for modifications or other actions of the board shall be
made to the building inspector in the form prescribed by him and shall
be transmitted by him to the board. The board may grant the applications
in whole or in part, deny same or grant it with or without modifications
as it shall deem proper. In its discretion the board may hold a public hear-
ing on such application before making a decision.

A decision of the board of construction standards may be appealed
to the county board of appeals as are other appeals from decisions of the
building inspector pursuant to section 2-90 (b), Montgomery County Code.

Section 7. Section 84-1, Chapter 84, title "Finance and Taxation"
of the Montgomery County Code 1965, is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

84-1. Financial advisory committee.

(a)    There is hereby created a financial advisory committee composed
of six members who shall serve for a period of three years and who shall
be appointed and removed by the county executive with the approval of
the council; provided, that the members first appointed shall serve for
terms of office consisting of one, two and three-year periods. All subsequent
appointments shall be for terms of three years.

(b)    The financial advisory committee is hereby requested to study
and report to the county executive with its recommendations on the
following:

(1) The budgeting procedures, both expense and capital, of the
county and other agencies for which the county appropriates money and
ways and means whereby they may be improved.