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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 279

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and
Administrative Departments

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(a)  A body corporate and politic to be known as "The
Central Maryland Cultural Commission" is authorized to be
created by all of the public sector representatives of the
political subdivisions of the Baltimore region. It shall be
an agency of the Regional Planning Council, an instrument of
this State and a public corporation by that name, style, and
title. It may contract and be contracted with, sue and be
sued, implead and be impleaded, and complain and defend in
all courts of law and equity.

(b)  The Commission shall have a Board of Directors, as
established below.

(1)  The Mayor of the City of Baltimore, the
County Executives of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, and
Howard Counties, the President of the Board of County
Commissioners of Carroll County, and the chairman of the
Regional Planning Council shall each be a member of the
Board. Each of these officers may nominate, constitute, and
appoint a permanent alternate to serve in the absence of
that member. These officers are authorized by unanimous
agreement to create this Commission.

(2)  The Governor shall appoint one public member
to the Board, and this member shall have an interest in the
cultural activities of the region and be a resident of the
region.

(3)  [The Speaker of the House shall appoint a
member of the House of Delegates to the Board and the
President of the Senate shall appoint a member of the Senate
to the Board. Both the Delegate and the Senator shall be
representatives of legislative districts within the region.

(4)] The chairperson of the advisory council
shall be a member of the Board.

[(5)] (4) The Regional Planning Council shall
select from among its membership one person who shall be a
member of the Board.

[(6)] (5) The Secretary of State Planning, the
Secretary of Economic and Community Development, the
Chairman of the Maryland Arts Council, and the members of
the Cultural Advisory Council shall serve as ex officio
members of the Board and may appoint alternates to serve in