WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                    Ch. 11

At least once a year, an authority shall file with the clerk
a report of its activities for the preceding year, and shall make
recommendations with reference to such additional legislation or
other action as it deems necessary in order to carry out the
purpose of this article.

In each county of the State there is hereby created a public
body corporate and politic to be known as the housing authority"
of the county; provided, however, that said housing authority
shall not transact or exercise its powers hereunder until or
unless the board of county commissioners shall declare at any
time hereafter that there is need for a housing authority to
function in such county, which declaration shall be made by said
board of county commissioners in the same manner and subject to
the same conditions (except for approval by the mayor) as the
declaration of the governing body of a city, required by § 4
[hereof] OF THIS ARTICLE for the purpose of authorizing a housing
authority of a city to transact business and exercise its powers.
The housing authorities of the counties shall, within their area
of operation as hereinafter defined, have all the functions,
rights, powers, duties and liabilities provided in this article
for housing authorities in cities, and the provisions of this
article shall, within the area of operation of such housing
authorities of the counties, apply to the housing authorities of
the counties in the same manner and to the same extent as this
article applies to housing authorities created in cities;
provided that as to housing authorities of the counties, the
board of commissioners of the county for which any such authority
is created, is hereby authorized to perform the acts herein
required or permitted by this article to be performed by the
governing body of the city, the mayor or said governing body and
the mayor, for the housing authority of the city. In Montgomery
and Prince George's counties, the county executive and the county
council are hereby authorized to perform the acts herein required
or permitted by this article to be performed by the mayor and the
governing body of the city, respectively, for the housing
authority of the city, except that the appointment and removal of
commissioners of the housing authority by the county executive
shall require the approval of the council. The area of operation
of a housing authority of a county shall include all of the
county except that portion thereof which lies within the
territorial boundaries of any city for which a housing authority
may be created under this article, unless the governing body of
any such city shall by proper resolution consent to its inclusion
in the area of operation of such county authority. With respect
to the provisions of other sections of this article and their
application to housing authorities of counties, the term "city"
shall be construed as referring to a county unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context.

DRAFTER'S NOTE: This corrects a stylistic error in a
cross-reference in Article 44A, § 23.

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