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1987, ch. 97; 1999 Supp., sec. 3-77; 2000, ch. 601.
(a) The County Commissioners may provide that a violation of any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, or bylaw adopted by it is:
(1) a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 6 months in the Carroll County Detention Center; or
(2) a civil infraction punishable by a penalty not to exceed $1,000.
(b) The County Commissioners may provide for the administering of the issuance of citations for civil infractions.
1976 Code, sec 3-67; 1976, ch. 622; 2000, ch. 601.
(a) Authority to create. The County Commissioners of Carroll County may abolish any water or sewer authority created by the County Commissioners pursuant to the provisions of §§ 9-901 through 9-925 of the Environment Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, or by public local law enacted by the General Assembly and may abolish any sanitary district or commission created pursuant to the provisions of §§ 9-601 through 9-669 of the Environment Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland or enacted by public local law by the General Assembly. After such an authority, district or commission has been abolished, or if none exists, the County Commissioners shall create a Department of Public Works and shall provide for its organization and functions.
(b) Responsibilities. This Department of Public Works may be granted responsibility for the construction, maintenance and control of the following:
(1) general county public works, buildings, publicly-owned water and sewerage facilities and capital projects;
(2) roads, highways, bridges and streets, lanes, alleys, footways and culverts;
(3) water supply facilities and projects;
(4) wastewater collection, treatment and disposal facilities and projects;
(5) solid waste collection, recycling and disposal facilities and projects;
(6) storm drainage, erosion and sediment control facilities and projects;
(7) lighting for roads, highways, alleys and other public places;
(8) fire hydrants, mosquito control facilities and programs and snow and ice removal; and
(9) whatever other functions and duties which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section and are assigned by the County Commissioners.
(c) Provisions for prior indebtedness. An ordinance or resolution creating a Department of Public Works shall provide for the retiring, refunding, refinancing, transfer, or assumption of any existing applicable outstanding bonded indebtedness of the County authority, district or commission which preceded it.
(d) Effect of statute. The powers granted to County Commissioners may be exercised notwithstanding the existence of any public general law or public local law to the contrary which is in existence at the time the County Commissioners exercise the power granted by this section.
1967, ch. 75; 1976 Code, sec. 4-1; 2000, ch. 601.
(a) Use etc. unlawful. The sale, use, or possession of chemically treated paper is a misdemeanor subject on conviction to a fine of not less than $250 or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or to both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
(b) Definition. For the purposes of this section, “chemically treated paper” is paper which has been treated with celluloid and nitrate, or with other substances or chemicals to give it a high combustibility; or has been treated with substances or chemicals to give it a high solubility; or has been treated with substances or chemicals to give it otherwise a quick disposability.
1967, ch. 224; 1976 Code, sec. 4-2; 2000, ch. 601.
(a) Restoration work required. Every person, firm, association, or corporation beginning the construction of a building or outside structure in Carroll County and subsequently abandoning or terminating the project shall level off, fill in, or otherwise restore the plot of land being used to a reasonably smooth and even surface, without projecting portions of construction or unfilled excavations.
(b) Investigation by County Commissioners. Six months following an apparent abandonment or discontinuance of the building or structure, the Board of County Commissioners shall investigate the situation and ascertain from the person, firm, association, or corporation which began the construction work if in fact it has been abandoned or terminated.
(c) Same; order of compliance. If the Board ascertains that the construction work has in fact been abandoned or terminated, it shall order in writing that the person, firm, association, or corporation which began the construction work conform to the requirements of subsection (a) of this section within sixty days after receiving the order. Failure to comply with this order is a misdemeanor.
(d) Temporary suspension of construction. If the Board ascertains that the construction work has been only temporarily suspended, for a reason which in the judgment of the Board is reasonable and probably unavoidable under the building, financial and other conditions applying to the project, it shall give written notice to the person, firm, association, or corporation which began the construction, of the provisions of this section. If the suspension of construction work continues for additional period of eighteen months from the time of this notification, the construction work shall be deemed abandoned or terminated, and any further noncompliance with the requirements of subsection (a) of this section is a misdemeanor.
(e) Penalty provisions. Any person, firm, association, or corporation convicted of a misdemeanor under this section is subject to a fine in an amount not in excess of one hundred dollars, plus the sum of five dollars for each day after conviction during which non-compliance with subsection (a) of the section continues.
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