546                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 252

man. Vacancies among the appointive members shall be filled by the
County Commissioners for the unexpired terms. Any person may be
reappointed to the Commission for successive terms. The County
Commissioners shall select the members of the Commission from
lists submitted by the Kent County Watermen's Association, Depart-
ment of Parks and Recreation, and the Kent County Farm Bureau.
The County Commissioners shall appoint a person or persons from
the lists thus submitted to them and in their discretion at any time
they may request additional lists of nominees. All appointees shall be
residents, property owners, and registered voters of Kent County.

(b)  Members of the Commission shall not be paid any compensa-
tion for their services, but may be remunerated for reasonable ex-
penses incurred in their duties. The Board of County Commissioners
of Kent County shall pay the proper and necessary expenses of the
Commission. A quorum of the Commission shall be any three mem-
bers thereof, but no permit may be issued and no resolution may be
adopted under this section, without the affirmative vote of at least
three members of the Commission.

(c)  The Commission shall have the duty of regulating and deter-
mining bulkhead lines, shorelines, and fill lines along the shorelines
of Kent County. No person, association, or corporation may construct
or reconstruct a bulkhead, or change a shoreline, or make a fill, along
the shorelines, without a permit for such work from the Commission.

(d)  Application for any such permit shall be made to the Com-
mission, on forms prepared by it, giving full details of the proposed
work or construction. The Commission thereupon shall set a time
and place for a public hearing on the application, to be at least fifteen
days later, at which the applicant and any other interested person
may offer information and testimony.

(e)  If on the basis of the application and the hearing the Com-
missioners determine that the proposed work or construction will
be of economic or commercial benefit to the county, will not harm
the shoreline or navigation in the waters of the county, will not cause
undue damage to the marine life of the county, or will improve the
recreational facilities and potential of the county, they shall approve
the application and issue a permit for the work or construction. Pro-
vided, however, any person, association, or corporation being issued
such a permit shall within 90 days from the date thereof, have
recorded among the land records of Kent County a plat certified by
a licensed surveyor, or a licensed engineer, showing in detail the
work or construction done or to be done as a result of said permit
being granted.

(f)  Any person aggrieved by an action of the Commission in either
issuing or failing to issue a permit for any such proposed work or
construction may appeal therefrom, within twenty-one days, to the
Circuit Court for Kent County. The Court shall hear all parties at
interest in the appeal and shall consider the case de novo; and shall
promptly determine the issue, either approving, rejecting, or modify-
ing the action of the Commission.

(g)  Any person, association, or corporation who proceeds with any
of the work or construction to which this section applies, without a
permit from the Commission or, upon appeal, from the Circuit Court,
is guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof is subject to