THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     607

lost, strayed or homeless animals, or confined to the premises of
public or private hospitals devoted to the treatment of sick animals
or to a dog being owned by a non-resident of the County and confined
temporarily at a licensed boarding kennel.

This Act shall not apply to Seeing Eye" dogs properly trained to
assist blind persons.

200N. (Dog License Commission's Power to Make Regulations
and to Delegate Authority.) The Dog License Commission shall have
the power to make, adopt or enforce from time to time, in their dis-
cretion, all necessary rules, regulations, and provisions for the sale
of licenses, the keeping of records and the convenient and effective
enforcement of this Act with power to delegate by written contract
such enforcement and administration of its various provisions, pro-
vided, however, that in any such contract it reserves the right to
cancel, without previous notice or recourse, such delegation for stated
cause or on thirty days' notice without cause. PROVIDED, HOW-
EVER, THAT ALL REGULATIONS ADOPTED SHALL BE SUB-
MITTED TO THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR THEIR AP-
PROVAL, AND AT THE CLOSE OF EACH FISCAL YEAR, THE
COMMISSION SHALL SUBMIT ITS BOOKS AND ACCOUNTS
FOR AN AUDIT TO BE PERFORMED BY AN INDEPENDENT
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT APPOINTED BY THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND A COPY OF SAID AUDIT
SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

200-O. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this sub-title
shall for any reason be adjudged by a court to be invalid, such judg-
ment shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, para-
graph or part involved in the controversy in which such judgment
shall have been rendered.

(Kennel Inspection and Regulation.) The Dog License Commis-
sion, or its warden, or peace officer and/or police officer within their
respective jurisdictions, may at any time inspect or cause to be in-
spected any kennel and if, in their or his judgment, the same is not
being maintained in a sanitary and humane manner, or if records
are not properly kept as required by law, the Dog License Commis-
sion shall by order revoke or suspend, and in case of suspension
reinstate, such license. Upon the petition of twenty-five citizens,
residing within a one (1) mile radius of a Dog Kennel, setting forth
that they are aggrieved, or annoyed to an unreasonable extent, by
one or more dogs at a kennel maintained within a one mile radius of
such kennel, because of the excessive barking or vicious disposition of
said dogs or other conditions connected with such kennel constituting
a public nuisance, the Dog License Commission shall within seven
days after the date of such notice. Within seven days after such
public hearing said Dog License Commission shall make an order
either revoking or suspending such kennel license or otherwise
regulating said kennel, or dismissing said petition.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 200 through Sec-
tion 207, inclusive, of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition), be and they are hereby repealed in so far as
they apply to Baltimore County and any other laws inconsistent with
the provisions of this Act be and they are hereby repealed to the
extent of such inconsistency.