2748                            County Local Laws

may, by law, authorize the County Executive to promulgate rules
and regulations concerning the powers conferred upon the County
and Council by Chapter 47; and to provide penalties for the
violation of such rules and regulations.

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

Sec. 1. Section 47-2, Chapter 47, title "Montgomery County Sub-
urban District," of the Montgomery County Code 1965, is hereby
amended to read as follows:

47-2. Council designated as District Council; powers; authority of
County Executive to promulgate rules and regulations; pen-
alties for violations of rules and regulations, etc.

(a) The County Council is, for all of the purposes of this
Chapter, designated as the District Council for the Montgomery
County Suburban District, and such Council is hereby given, for the
purposes of this Chapter, all legislative powers with which it can, in
a constitutional manner, be vested by the General Assembly of
Maryland. The County Executive is, for all the purposes of this
Chapter, designated as the executive officer for the Montgomery
County Suburban District. In addition to the powers vested in the
Council by existing law, the Council is hereby authorized within the
District to prescribe by law reasonable standards affecting the kind,
size and character (including the material used therein) of buildings
to be erected in the District; to prescribe by law for the licensing
for the purpose of regulation or revenue all and every kind of business
transacted or carried on within the District and to fix the rate of
license upon the same or by law authorize the County Executive to
set the rate of license fees and provide for the collection thereof
by suit or otherwise; to prescribe by law for the licensing and regula-
tion of any place of public amusement or recreation, pleasure parks,
picnic grounds, clubhouses, theatrical exhibitions, baseball grounds,
bowling alleys, billiard halls, poolrooms, camp meeting grounds, grave-
yards, sanitariums, hospitals, homes for the aged, orphan asylums,
homes for children and convalescent homes, signs or signboards on or
near State or County roads; provided, that the power of the County
to inspect, license and regulate clubhouses shall not apply to club-
houses of country clubs within the District which were in existence
and operation on January 1, 1927, and which on that date had a public
or private list of fifty or more bona fide members paying dues and
which on that date maintained on the club premises at least two of
the following athletic facilities for their membership:

(1)    A golf course of nine holes or more;

(2)    Two or more tennis courts, or

(3)    A swimming pool not less than forty feet in length and
twenty feet in width.