Kent County                                     2371

190A. Code Home Rule Legislative Sessions, Quorum and a provision
to adopt Rules of Procedure.

(a)    Total session days: The County Commissioners may sit forty-five
days in each year for the purpose of enacting legislation; such legislative
days may, but need not, be consecutive.

(b)   Annual legislative session: The County Commissioners may meet
for an annual legislative session up to fifteen legislative days commencing
on the second Tuesday of May of each year.

(c)   Monthly legislative session-day: The County Commissioners shall
also meet on the first Tuesday of each month except in November in a
County Commissioner's election year, for the purpose of enacting legisla-
tion, but if the said first Tuesday shall be a holiday the said session-day

shall be held on the next succeeding Tuesday which is not a holiday.

(d)   Emergency sessions: The County Commissioners may be called
into emergency session for the purpose of enacting emergency legislation
by a majority of the County Commissioners.

(e)   Quorum: A majority of the County Commissioners shall consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business, except that for emergency
sessions the attendance of all of the County Commissioners shall be re-
quired.

(f)   Rules of Procedure: It shall be the duty of the County Commis-
sioners to adopt rules of procedure for the legislative session.

Section 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED BY THE Board of
County Commissioners of Kent County, Maryland, that this Act shall take
effect on March 15, 1971.

BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Read the third time on March 15, 1971.
Passed: Yes

Ordered a fair summary thereof or the entire bill shall be published
in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the County, not less
than three times, at weekly intervals, within a four week period.

By Order: Kathryn N. Pinder, Secretary
APPROVED:

Date: March 15, 1971

The County Commissioners of
Kent County, Maryland

S. Glyn Edwards

Robert L. Davies

Roland T. Fanimore

And was duly recorded March 22, 1971 by Earl H. Pinder, Clerk.