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MONTGOMERY COUNTY

NOMINATIONS MADE BY ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING
TENANTS; AND THREE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC-AT-LARGE WHO
ARE NEITHER TENANTS NOR LANDLORDS. PRIOR TO SELECTING
REPRESENTATIVES OF LANDLORDS AND TENANTS,
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MEMBERS SHALL BE REQUESTED FROM
ALL ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE COUNTY REPRESENTING
EITHER LANDLORDS OR TENANTS. IF NO NOMINATIONS ARE
RECEIVED WITHIN A TIME LIMIT SPECIFIED BY THE COUNTY
EXECUTIVE, HE MAY MAKE APPOINTMENTS WITHOUT
NOMINATIONS. THE TERMS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
COMMISSION SHALL BE FOR THREE (3) YEARS, EXCEPT THAT
THE INITIAL TERMS OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION FOR
EACH OF THE THREE AFOREMENTIONED GROUPS SHALL BE FOR
ONE, TWO AND THREE YEARS, AS PRESCRIBED BY THE COUNTY
EXECUTIVE AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT, SO AS TO PROVIDE
FOR THE VACATING OF THE TERMS OF ONE-THIRD OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION IN EACH GROUP ANNUALLY.
EACH MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION SHALL CONTINUE TO SERVE
UNTIL HIS SUCCESSOR HAS BEEN APPOINTED AND HAS BEEN
CONFIRMED.

(B) TO ASSIST THE COMMISSION IN THE EXPEDITIOUS
DISPOSITION OF ITS DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND TO
ENSURE THAT EACH OF THE AFOREMENTIONED GROUPS OF
REPRESENTATION BE ADEQUATELY REPRESENTED, THERE SHALL
BE ONE ALTERNATE MEMBER FOR EACH GROUP. THE ALTERNATE
MEMBERS SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE,
SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL, WITHIN
THIRTY (30) DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
CHAPTER, AND THEREAFTER WITHIN FORTY-FIVE (45) DAYS OF
THE CREATION OF ANY VACANCY. THE TERMS OF THE
ALTERNATE MEMBERS SHALL BE FOR THREE (3) YEARS. EACH
ALTERNATE MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION SHALL CONTINUE TO
SERVE UNTIL HIS SUCCESSOR HAS BEEN APPOINTED AND HAS
BEEN CONFIRMED. ALTERNATE MEMBERS SHALL HAVE VOTING
PRIVILEGES ONLY WHEN ACTING IN THE STEAD OF AN ABSENT
COMMISSION MEMBER OF THE GROUP WHICH THE ALTERNATE
REPRESENTS.

93A—9. COMMISSION POWERS; GENERALLY.

IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER POWER, DUTY OR
RESPONSIBILITY PROVIDED IN THIS CHAPTER, THE
COMMISSION SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING POWERS:

(A) SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL,
THE COMMISSION MAY MAKE, ISSUE, ADOPT, PROMULGATE,
AMEND AND RESCIND SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS,
INCLUDING PROVISIONS FOR NOTIFICATION UNDER THIS
CHAPTER, AS IT DEEMS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE