Ch. 478                             MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                1069

preside at all meetings of said County Commissioners. The County Commissioners
shall meet at least twice in each week in the office of the County Commissioners in
the Court House, Cumberland, Maryland; but if a holiday occurs on a meeting
date or if County business requires the presence of the County Commissioners
outside the County on a meeting date, they may meet only once in the week in
which this event occurs. Each Commissioner shall receive as full compensation for
all of his services, the sum of [twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400)] SIXTY-FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS ($6,500) per year and the President of the County
Commissioners shall receive the sum of (two thousand six hundred dollars
($2,600)] SIXTY-SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS ($6,700) per year, all of said
salaries being payable semi-monthly.

46.

(The County Commissioners of Allegany County shall each be paid nine
hundred dollars ($900.00) per annum, payable monthly, for services rendered as
road commissioners of said County in addition to the compensation provided by
section 45.] The attorney to the Board of County Commissioners shall be paid
three hundred dollars ($300.00) per annum, payable monthly, for legal services
rendered to said Board as Road Commissioners, in addition to the compensation
paid him as attorney to the Board of County Commissioners.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the provisions of this Act
shall not be construed to extend or apply to the County Commissioners of
Allegany County in office on the effective date of this Act, but the provisions of
this Act shall take effect with the next term of office.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 21, 1973.

CHAPTER 478
(Senate Bill 1097)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 8-218 of Article 21 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Interim Supplement), "Real Property,"
title "VIII. Landlord and Tenant," as added by Chapter 2 (Senate Bill 750) of
the Acts of 1973; to clarify the right of a tenant to quiet entry of leased
premises and the penalty for the landlord of a violation of that right, and
relating generally to the landlord-tenant laws.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 8-218 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Interim Supplement), "Real Property," title "VIII. Landlord and
Tenant," as added by Chapter 2 (Senate Bill 750) of the Acts of 1973, be and it is
hereby, repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

8-218.

(a) A landlord shall assure his tenant that the tenant may peaceably and quietly
enter upon the leased premises at the beginning of the term of any lease OR
RENTAL.