HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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period of nine months beginning with the day following the
period of being in such category.

29.

When a person in [civil defense] EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
AND CIVIL DEFENSE service or a person suffering injury or
damage has been reported missing he shall be presumed to
continue in such category until accounted for, and no period
herein limited which begins or ends with the death of such
person shall begin or end until the death of such person is
in fact found, or until such death is found by a court of
competent jurisdiction.

32.

If, by reason of any military or warlike catastrophe, a
majority of the members of any board of county commissioners
or county council or Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
City are killed, or are sick, incapacitated, missing, or
otherwise unavailable for either a temporary or an
indefinite period, the Governor may exercise any of the
administrative and executive powers provided by law for that
board of county commissioners or that county council, until
such time as a number of county commissioners or councilmen
sufficient to operate the county government are appointed
and qualify. The powers provided in this section exist and
may be exercised only during the effective period of an
official proclamation by the Governor, declaring a portion
or all of the county to be within [a civil defense] AN
emergency [or disaster] area, actual or threatened.

33.

(c) The powers provided in this section exist and may
be exercised only during the effective period of an official
proclamation by the Governor, declaring a portion or all of
the corporate boundaries of the municipal corporation to be
within [a civil defense] AN emergency [or disaster] area,
actual or threatened.

34.

If, by reason of any military or warlike catastrophe, a
majority of the members of the governing body, by whatever
name known, of any special tax area or special tax district
(including a sanitary district or water district) in this
State are killed, or are sick, incapacitated, missing, or
otherwise unavailable for either a temporary or an
indefinite period, with the result that for a temporary or
an indefinite period the tax area or tax district (including
a sanitary district or water district) is unable to function
normally, the Governor may exercise any of the executive and
administrative powers of the tax area or tax district
(including a sanitary district or water district) until such
time as according to the particular manner of filling
vacancies in the governing body of the tax area or district,