320                              Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 69

Board of County Commissioners with the time prescribed within
this section.

(k) (i) The Board of County Commissioners in order to protect
the revenues to be obtained under this section may require any per-
son collecting the tax to file with the Board a surety bond issued by
a surety company authorized to do business in this State and ap-
proved by the State Insurance Commissioner as to solvency and re-
sponsibility, in such amount or amounts from time to time as the
Board of County Commissioners may fix to secure the payment of
the tax due or which may become due from the person collecting the
tax. If the Board determines that the person is to file such a bond,
the Board shall give notice to the person to that effect specifying the
amount of bond required. The person collecting the tax shall file the
bond within five (5) days after receiving the notice unless within
that period he requests in writing a hearing before the Board, at
which hearing the necessity, propriety and amount of the bond shall
be determined by the Board of County Commissioners. This deter-
mination is final and shall be complied with within fifteen (15) days
after the person collecting the tax receives notice thereof.

(ii) In lieu of the bond required by paragraph (i) of this subsec-
tion, securities approved by the Board of County Commissioners or
cash in such amount as the Board prescribes may be deposited,
which shall be kept in the custody of the Board. The Board at any
time without notice to the depositor of the securities or cash may
apply them to any tax due, and for that purpose the securities may
be sold by the Board at public or private sale without notice to the
depositor of the securities.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THIS ACT
SHALL BE EFFECTIVE NOTWITHSTANDING THE PASSAGE
OF ANY OTHER ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WHICH
SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1971 AND BE APPLI-
CABLE WITHIN WORCESTER COUNTY AND THIS ACT
SHALL PREVAIL OVER ANY PROVISIONS OF SUCH OTHER
ACT INCONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT.

Sec. 2. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect July JUNE 1, 1971.

Approved April 23, 1971.

CHAPTER 69
(Senate Bill 315)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 214(d)
and 214(f) of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1968 Replacement Volume and 1970 Supplement), title "Licenses,"
subtitle "Real Estate Brokers," to change the number of field
inspectors from two (2) to five (5), to include them FIELD
INSPECTORS in the Classified Employees System. , and to re-
quire the assignment of at least two (2) of them in areas of
the State which are experiencing significant neighborhood in-
stability.