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2007, ch. 357
(a) In this section, “secondhand dealer” does not include secondhand precious metal object dealers regulated under Title 12 of the Business Regulation Article.
(b) The County Commissioners by ordinance may license and regulate pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers to identify stolen property, to prevent the disposition of stolen property, and to return stolen property to its owners.
(c) Subsection (b) of this section authorizes the County Commissioners to adopt ordinances to:
(1) establish record-keeping requirements;
(2) establish reporting requirements;
(3) set fees;
(4) establish holding periods;
(5) establish methods of enforcement;
(6) set civil penalties;
(7) define terms; and
(8) regulate pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers as necessary to carry out the intent of this section.
1965 Code, sec. 310; 1965, ch. 297; 1976 Code, sec. 10-1; 2000, ch. 601.
(a) Removal and sale. If any motor vehicle is abandoned in Carroll County on any public road, highway, alley, parking lot, public property, or on any private property of a person not its owner, in violation of any law or ordinance regarding the parking of vehicles, or for an unreasonable length of time so as to constitute a traffic hazard or a nuisance to the public or any citizen of the County, and the owner cannot be located, any law enforcement officer of the County is authorized to impound, remove and sell the motor vehicle at a public sale to be held not sooner than thirty (30) days after the vehicle was impounded and removed. Notice of the sale shall be given for two successive weeks before the sale in one or more newspapers published in the County, stating the time, place, and terms of sale, and describing the motor vehicle to be sold. If the owner of the vehicle or any lien holder can be determined, the notice of sale shall be sent to them by registered or certified mail not later than ten (10) days before the sale. When the motor vehicle is certified by two licensed automobile dealers in the County to have a value of less than twenty-five dollars, any law enforcement officer may impound, remove, sell at public or private sale or otherwise dispose of the vehicle provided only that notice be affixed to the vehicle and, if the owner of the vehicle or any lienholder can be determined, notice of sale or other intended disposition shall be sent to them by registered or certified mail not later than ten (10) days before the sale or disposition.
(b) Distribution of proceeds. After deduction first of the costs of impounding, removal and sale of the vehicle, and then payment of any liens on the vehicle, to the extent funds are available, the surplus, if any, from the sale shall be paid over to the Board of County Commissioners and deposited with a special fund.
(c) Refunds to owners. If at any time not to exceed one year after a sale, the owner of a vehicle sold presents a claim to the County Commissioners for the excess of the sale, and proof of the owner’s ownership of the vehicle sold, the Commissioners shall pay the excess from the special fund to the owner of the vehicle sold. If no claim for refund is made as provided in this subsection, the Commissioners shall transfer the excess funds into general funds of the County.
(d) Regulations. The County Commissioners are authorized by ordinance or resolution to prescribe necessary regulations to carry out the provisions of this section, not inconsistent with the provisions of this section.
1966, ch. 171, sec. 34B; 1976 Code, sec. 3-25; 2000, ch. 601.
(a) Unless the particular provisions of the context otherwise requires, the definitions and provisions contained in this section govern the construction and the meaning and application of words and phrases used in this title.
(b) “Commissioners” means the Board of County Commissioners of Carroll County.
(c) “Administrative Assistant” means the Administrative Assistant for the Board of County Commissioners of Carroll County.
(d) “Assessor” means the Supervisor of Assessments of Carroll County.
(e) “Work” or “improvement”, whether used singly or in combination, means and includes the performance of all acts and doing of the things necessary to carry out the purposes of this title including the maintenance of open areas and the doing of those acts set forth in § 8-104 of this title.
(f) “Open space” or “open area” means any space or area characterized by great natural scenic beauty or whose existing openness, natural condition, or present state of use, if retained, would enhance the present or potential value of abutting or surrounding urban development, or would maintain or enhance the conservation of natural or scenic resources.
(g) “Open Space Maintenance District” or “district” means any district created pursuant to the provisions of this title.
1966, ch. 171, sec. 34C; 1976 Code, sec. 3-26; 2000, ch. 601.
The purpose of this title is to form districts within Carroll County within which property may be assessed to pay the costs and expenses of improving and maintaining open spaces belonging to the county in a manner that conserves their natural condition and scenic beauty which, if preserved, maintained, or developed in their present open state will constitute physical, esthetic or economic assets to existing, impending, abutting or surrounding urban development or which will maintain or enhance the conservation of natural or scenic resources; and to maintain the open spaces in a way that will reduce the danger of fire which exists when open areas covered with vegetation remain in their natural state.
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