HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 138

Article 9 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1969 Edition and 1977 Supplement, as amended)

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of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as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

Article 9 - Charles County
138.

(a)  The County Commissioners of Charles County are
authorized to establish a Commission on Human Relations for
the county, whose purpose it shall be to promote
understanding and harmony of relationship between the people
of the county through the study of the nature and all causes
of social friction and prejudice and the advancement of
means for the alleviation of these problems, and to
otherwise further the American ideal of equality and
justice.

(b)  The organization and particular functions of the
Commission shall be as the county commissioners may
prescribe. The [Governor] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS shall
appoint the members of the Commission in such number as the
county commissioners may determine shall compose the
Commission for terms of four years each. The members shall
be representative of the various segments of the community
and shall serve without compensation. The Commission shall
file with the county commissioners no less than annually a
comprehensive report covering its activities.

(c)  If any member fails to attend at least 50 percent
of the regularly scheduled meetings of the Commission in any
one calendar year, he shall be removed and the [Governor]
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS shall appoint a replacement for him.

(d)  The County Commissioners are authorized to provide
all administrative support to the Commission necessary to
properly effectuate the provisions of this section, and to
annually appropriate to this end an amount not exceeding
five hundred dollars ($500.).

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved April 8, 1980.

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