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(3) Contract for the construction or operation or both of incinera-
tors or other disposal plants, to be paid for from charges or otherwise, and
to become the property of the County after such period and upon such
terms as it may prescribe.

(b) While the County or any other board or agency is providing
refuse collection service in any area of the County, all authority of any
other board or agency shall be suspended as to that area.

Section 3. Section 11-16, Chapter 11, title "Health and Sanitation",
of the Montgomery County Code 1965, is hereby repealed in its entirety.

"Section 4. Severability.

The provisions of this Act are severable and if any provision, sentence,
clause, section or part thereof is held illegal, invalid or unconstitutional
or inapplicable to any person or circumstances, such illegality, invalidity
or unconstitutionally, or inapplicability shall not affect or impair any of
the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or parts of the Act
or their application to other persons or circumstances. It is hereby declared
to be the legislative intent that this Act would have been adopted if such
illegal, invalid or unconstitutional provision, sentence, clause, section or
part had not been included therein, and if the person or circumstances to
which the Act or any part thereof is inapplicable had been specifically
exempted therefrom."

Section 5. Effective date.

This Act shall take effect on December 7, 1970.

Certified correct as passed.

President
Secretary

Enacted December 16, 1969
Effective March 2, 1970
November Legislative Session 1969

Chapter 48
(Bill No. 56-69)

An Act to amend Chapter 84, Article II thereof, titled "Contracts,
Purchases and Sales," of the Montgomery County Code 1965, by re-
pealing and reenacting, with amendments, Sections 84-11 through
84-23, and to add a new Section 84-12A, title "Non-discrimination in
Employment," so as to provide that the competitive bid requirement
is raised to $3,000, to provide that enforcement shall be supervised
by the chief administrative officer, to provide for the function and
structure thereof, and to provide for a policy of non-discrimination in
employment by contractors.

Be It Enacted by the County Council for Montgomery County, Maryland,
that—

Section 1. Sections 84-11 through 84-23, Chapter 84, Article II, title
"Contracts, Purchases and Sales," of the Montgomery County Code 1965