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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 770

(1)  To accept gifts, legacies, bequests or
endowments for purposes of the board. Unless otherwise
specified by the donor making such gift, legacy, bequest or
endowment, the board, in its discretion, may expend both
principal and income of any such gift, bequest, legacy or
endowment to support the board's nursing home program;

(2)  To acquire and hold real and personal
property in the name of the county commissioners by any
means, to sell or otherwise dispose of such property so
acquired, and to preserve and administer such properties;

(3)  To provide adequate facilities and services
for the care and treatment of the aged, convalescent, and
chronically ill citizens of the county. These facilities
and services will or may include physical care, medical,
nursing, recreational, rehabilitative, special education,
and other similar activities, and, in addition,
dissemination of information relative to causes and
prevention of chronic and debilitating illnesses;

(4)  To charge such fees for admission to and
maintenance in such facilities and for use of such services
as may support the facilities and services subject, however,
to the provision that where aged, convalescent, and
chronically ill residents of the county are in need of such
facilities and services and are sufficiently impecunious as
to be unable to pay the full cost of such care, then the
charges to such residents shall be in direct proportion to
their ability to pay for the services;

(5)  To apply all moneys, assets, property or
other things of value it may receive to the general purposes
of the board;

(6)  To adopt, subject to the terms of this
section, such rules and regulations of any facilities or
services that it establishes as may be necessary for their
proper operation;

(7)  To cooperate with and assist, insofar as
practicable, any agency of the State of Maryland, the United
States of America, any subdivision of either, or any private
agency or person in furtherance of any of the purposes of
this section;

(8)  To hire a director of any facility or
service that it establishes and to provide for such
additional employees, their qualifications and wages as are
necessary to properly operate such facilities;

(9)  To require that all facilities and services
that it establishes maintain such standards that they may
qualify for licenses as hospitals [from the State Board of