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Energy policy, provisions added and amended; Energy Conservation Advisory
Committee, name changed to Advisory Committee on Energy and Air
Quality, and duties altered; Interagency Group on Energy and Utility

Management, created...................................................................................... 4899

Future services contracts, unfair trade practices, provisions altered ............... 4890

Gaithersburg, annexation .................................................................................... 4799

Health and Human Services Department, created; Departments of Addiction,
Victim, and Mental Health Services and Family Resources, abolished;
frequency of junkyard inspections, altered; transportation of alcoholic

patients to detox by deputy sheriffs, provisions repealed ............................. 4891

Home occupations, zoning requirements clarified; no-impact home

occupation zoning standards and requirements, added................................ 4902

Human Relations Commission and Commission panels, Commission on
Landlord-Tenant Affairs, Merit System Protection Board, and Revenue
Authority, service without compensation, provisions added; Commission on
Children and Youth, supervision of Youth Advisory Committee as a

Commission subcommittee, provisions added ........................................... 4897

Humanities, Commission on the, appointment and terms of members, duties,
and staff support by Department of Public Libraries, provisions amended;

termination date extended .............................................................................. 4894

Landlord Tenant Affairs, Office of, and Office of and Commission on
Common Ownership Communities, transferred to Office of Consumer

Affairs............................................................................................................... 4895

Libraries and museums, allowed as permitted use in rural cluster zone ........ 4903

Local map amendments, time restrictions for filing, repealed ......................... 4905

Low density rural cluster zone created that can be applied only on

recommendation of a local area Master Plan ................................................ 4906

Motor vehicle repair operations registered before October 1994, permitted to

continue as nonconforming use...................................................................... 4904

New home warranty requirements, provisions altered...................................... 4887

Nonmerit positions in the executive branch, provisions altered ...................... 4891

North Chevy Chase, Village of, approval of incorporation as a municipality,

and new charter adopted ................................................................................ 4811

Panhandling, aggressive, prohibited .................................................................. 4890

Parking lot districts, advancement of funds from county general fund to,

restrictions and repayment period, provisions altered .................................. 4889

Parking requirements for home occupations and definition of commercial

vehicle, provisions altered ............................................................................... 4906

Preschool and kindergarten educational programs, allowed as accessory use . 4904
Productivity Housing -

Program, provisions repealed .......................................................................... 4901

Special exception in residential zones, provisions repealed ......................... 4907

Property tax credit for conservation land, provisions added ............................ 4897

Public Arts Trust Fund, established; appropriation of county funds for works

of art, provisions altered ................................................................................. 4890

Real estate appraiser, licensed, appointment to estimate the fair market value

of properties needed for county roads, provisions added ............................. 4900

Recreation Board, number of members increased............................................ 4886

Research development and related activities permitted in the O-M zone,

provisions amended......................................................................................... 4907

Riding stables, special exception requirements, duties of hearing examiner,
provisions altered ............................................................................................. 4905

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