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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 289

(2)  THE DISTRICT MAY not include areas within any
Federal reservation, or within any municipal corporation unless
any [such] THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE municipal corporation [shall
consent or agree] CONSENTS OR AGREES to such inclusion or [shall
annex] ANNEXES a portion of the District subsequent to passage of
such ordinance or resolution.

(3)   [Said] THE ordinance or resolution [shall] also
SHALL set forth the names, addresses, and terms of office of the
first members of the Commission of [said] THE District[,
hereinafter provided for. Said]. THE ordinance or resolution
shall further recite that it is adopted for the purpose of
carrying out and implementing this subtitle.

(c)  Legality of ordinance. [Such] THE ordinance or
resolution, duly signed by the President of the Board of County
Commissioners [of the County,] AND with the County seal affixed,
attested by the County Clerk, shall[, by said Clerk,] be filed
and recorded BY THE COUNTY CLERK with the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Washington County and, upon such filing and recording,
[said] THE District shall be conclusively deemed to have been
lawfully and properly created and established, and authorized to
exercise its powers under this subtitle.

(d)  Officers; place of business. As soon as the Commission
of [said] THE District [shall have] HAS been organized and its
officers elected, the Secretary-Treasurer [thereof] shall file
with the Clerk to the Circuit Court for Washington County the
names and addresses of [such] THE officers, as well as the
principal office or place of business of [said] THE District.
Any change in either [of the aforegoing] ONE shall likewise be
filed with [said] THE Clerk.

(e)  Records of Clerk of Court. The Clerk to the Circuit
Court for Washington County shall establish, among the records
[maintained by him] THAT THE CLERK MAINTAINS, a book or other
suitable file, properly indexed, in which shall be entered or
recorded all ordinances, resolutions, plats and certificates
filed with him [pursuant to] UNDER this subtitle.

(f)  Prior incorporation. [In the event] IF the District
[shall have been] WAS incorporated pursuant to the provisions of
Section 875 of Chapter 694 of the Laws of Maryland of 1957
([being] Section 529 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Washington County, [as the same appeared in the] 1957 Edition [of
said Code]), then, upon the PROPER filing of the REQUIRED
ordinance or resolution [mentioned in said section in the manner
hereinabove prescribed, said] THE District shall[, for all
purposes,] be deemed to have come into existence [hereunder and
it shall not thereafter be necessary for]. NEITHER the County
[or said] NOR THE District [to] NEED file any ordinance,
resolution, certificate or articles of amendment with any person
or agency other than the Clerk to the Circuit Court for
Washington County. (1957 Code, sec. 529. 1957, ch. 694, sec.
875; 1961, ch. 743, sec. 529.)