2408                               County Local Laws

thence with the boundary of the District of Columbia, northeast to a point
where the said boundary intersects Rock Creek, following the meanders
thereof, in a northwesterly direction, to the point where the easterly line
of the Charles C. Bohrer property intersects Rock Creek, the said property
being the certain tract of land particularly designated and described in a
deed recorded in the Land Records of Montgomery County, Maryland, in
Liber J.A. 46 at Folio 38, the above described point being where the
boundary of the Bethesda Fire Department taxing area leaves Rock Creek;
thence in a southwesterly direction and with the easterly line of the said
Charles C. Bohrer property to the northeast corner of the M.E. Coolidge
property; thence with the easterly line of the said M.E. Coolidge property
and across the public road known as the Jones Bridge Road to the northerly
line of the property of the Columbia County Club; thence westerly following
the boundaries of the said Columbia Country Club to the northwest corner
of the boundaries of said Club; thence in a southerly meandering direction
contiguous with the easterly boundaries of the Bethesda Fire Department,
Inc. District, to the center line of Bradley Lane; thence west along the
center line of Bradley Lane to the center line of Wisconsin Avenue ex-
tended; thence southerly along the center line of Wisconsin Avenue to the
place of beginning, the Council is hereby authorized and empowered to
levy annually against all of the real and personal property within the
area a tax sufficient, on each one hundred dollars of the assessable value of
the real and personal property within such area, to pay the annual require-
ments or expenditures necessary to establish, maintain and operate the
fire department, the tax to be determined, levied, collected and paid over
in the following manner: No later than February 1st of each year the
Director of Finance of the County may certify to the Chevy Chase Fire
Department, Inc., or its successor, the whole assessable value of the real
and personal property within such area.

Section 2. This Act shall take effect on the 76th day following its
enactment.

Chapter 19
(Bill No. 3-70)

An Act to amend Chapter 2, titled "Administration," of the Mont-
gomery County Code 1965, by amending the title of Article III thereof
and by repealing and re-enacting, with amendments, subsections (a) and
(d) of Section 2-24, titled "Power to adopt codes, rules, regulations,
standards and ordinances—Generally; administration and enforce-
ment," and Section 2-28, titled "Procedure for adoption of rules,
standards, regulations and ordinances," to authorize the Council to
provide by law minimum standards to safeguard life, health or
property, etc. including the authority to regulate signs; to remove a
reference to the County Suburban District; to authorize the County
Executive to adopt regulations governing the administration and
enforcement of laws and to provide generally for the procedure by
which the County Executive shall adopt rules and regulations.

Be It Enacted by the County Council for Montgomery County, Mary-
land, that—

Section 1. The title of Article III, Chapter 2, titled "Administration,"
of the Montgomery County Code 1965, is hereby amended to read as
follows: