Ch. 738                                    1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

THE "_______________________________________PUBLIC DRAINAGE ASSOCIATION",

WITH THE RIGHT TO ACQUIRE AND HOLD PROPERTY AND CONVEY THE SAME, TO
SUE AND BE SUED, TO ADOPT A SEAL AND TO ALTER IT AT PLEASURE, AND TO
EXERCISE CORPORATE POWERS.

72.

The board of managers so elected or appointed under § [70] 58 shall proceed to
determine, by the drawing of lots, which of their number shall serve until the date of the
first regular annual meeting, as hereinafter provided in this subtitle, and for two years
thereafter, which one shall serve until the date of the first regular annual meeting and for
one year thereafter, and which one shall serve until the date of the first regular annual
meeting.

74.

The board of county commissioners shall deliver to the board of managers one copy
of the [report] PETITION and [map of the drainage viewers] REPORT as [confirmed]
APPROVED by the board of county commissioners. They shall retain one copy of the
[report] PETITION and [map] REPORT in their official records and shall deliver the
third copy of the [report] PETITION and [map] REPORT to the State Soil Conservation
Committee.

75.

The board of managers shall call a meeting of the [taxables] LANDOWNERS on a
date they select in January of each year. They shall give ten days' previous notice of the
meeting by notices posted in four of the most public places in the vicinity of the drainage
project, stating the time, place and object of the meeting. They may call a special meeting
of the [taxables] LANDOWNERS at any time, for which notice shall be given as aforesaid,
and in addition a written or printed notice shall be mailed to each of the [taxables]
LANDOWNERS, to the Board of County Commissioners, and to the State Soil
Conservation Committee.

76.                                                                                                                             

At such annual meetings the [taxables] LANDOWNERS shall elect a successor to
that manager whose term expires as of that date and to any other or others whose death
or resignation may have occurred since the last regular meeting. They shall receive the
annual report of the board of managers, and shall transact such other business as may
properly come before them.

77.

Should the managers for the time being fail to call an annual meeting of the
[taxables] LANDOWNERS as aforesaid, or, such meeting having been called, should a
quorum fail to be present, then in either case the board of county commissioners, upon
proof being given, is authorized and directed to appoint a person or persons, to fill such
a vacancy or vacancies on the board of managers.

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