HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Health as required in Article 43, Section 566 of this Code
as amended from time to time] UNDER § 19-318 OF THE HEALTH -
GENERAL ARTICLE;

(10) To integrate its facilities with, accept
funds from, and cooperate with the [State Board] SECRETARY
of Health and Mental Hygiene in any facet or facets of its
operations insofar as deemed advisable by this board.

[(d)] (E) The board shall elect one of its members to
serve as chairman for any period it may designate. It shall
hold such meetings as may be necessary for the proper
conduct of its business, not, however, less frequently than
once per month. It shall adopt, subject to the terms of
this section, such rules as are necessary for the internal
regulation of the board.

[(e)] (F) The activities of the board shall be
supported insofar as possible by citizen support, voluntary
contributions, fees and charges, payments from the State and
federal government. The county commissioners or county
council are authorized to make annual appropriations in
support of the operations of the citizens nursing home board
of the county for the objective of maintaining an adequate
level of medical and nursing care for the aged,
convalescent, and chronically ill citizens of the county.
In further support of the objectives of this section the
county commissioners or county council may make
appropriations for land acquisition and capital improvements
or borrow funds for these purposes and issue individual
notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness.

[(f)] (G) The board shall annually report their
activities to the county commissioners or county council
during the preceding year, together with recommendations or
requests they deem appropriate to achieve the objectives and
purposes of this section.

[566.1 255.

(a) The Board of County Commissioners of Somerset
County shall cooperate within the terms of this section and
subtitle for the construction of a nursing home hospital and
related hospital facilities by contributions up to two
hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) of the cost of this
nursing home hospital and hospital facilities. The nursing
home hospital so constructed shall be provided in the Town
of Crisfield as a sixty-bed nursing home hospital adjoining
McCready Hospital in that town, to be known as the Alice
Byrd Tawes Nursing Home and to be on the same grounds as
McCready Hospital, and to have a corridor connecting
therewith. For this purpose the County Commissioners of
Somerset County shall levy or appropriate from the general
funds of the county up to a maximum of two hundred thousand
dollars ($200,000.00); or they may (within the limits of any