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CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 1A. STRUCTURE OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 2. ADMINISTRATION - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 2B. AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 3. AIR QUALITY CONTROL - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 3A. ALARMS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 5. ANIMAL CONTROL - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 8. BUILDINGS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 8A. CABLE COMMUNICATIONS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 10B. COMMON OWNERSHIP COMMUNITIES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 11. CONSUMER PROTECTION - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 11A. CONDOMINIUMS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 11B. CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 13. DETENTION CENTERS AND REHABILITATION FACILITIES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 15. EATING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 16. ELECTIONS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 17. ELECTRICITY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 18A. ENERGY POLICY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 19. EROSION, SEDIMENT CONTROL AND STORMWATER MANAGEMENT - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 19A. ETHICS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 20 FINANCE - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 21 FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 22. FIRE SAFETY CODE - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 22A. FOREST CONSERVATION - TREES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 23A. GROUP HOMES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 24. HEALTH AND SANITATION - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 24A. HISTORIC RESOURCES PRESERVATION - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 24B. HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATIONS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 25. HOSPITALS, SANITARIUMS, NURSING AND CARE HOMES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 25A. HOUSING, MODERATELY PRICED - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 25B. HOUSING POLICY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 26. HOUSING AND BUILDING MAINTENANCE STANDARDS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 27. HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 27A. INDIVIDUAL WATER SUPPLY AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL FACILITIES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 29. LANDLORD-TENANT RELATIONS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 30. LICENSING AND REGULATIONS GENERALLY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 30C. MOTOR VEHICLE TOWING AND IMMOBILIZATION ON PRIVATE PROPERTY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 31. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 31A. MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR AND TOWING REGISTRATION - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 31B. NOISE CONTROL - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 31C. NEW HOME BUILDER AND SELLER REGISTRATION AND WARRANTY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 33. PERSONNEL AND HUMAN RESOURCES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 33B. PESTICIDES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 35. POLICE - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 36. POND SAFETY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 38A. RADIO, TELEVISION AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE INSTALLATION AND REPAIRS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 40. REAL PROPERTY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 41. RECREATION AND RECREATION FACILITIES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 41A. RENTAL ASSISTANCE - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 42A. RIDESHARING AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 44. SCHOOLS AND CAMPS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 44A. SECONDHAND PERSONAL PROPERTY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 45. SEWERS, SEWAGE DISPOSAL AND DRAINAGE - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 47. VENDORS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 48. SOLID WASTES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 49. STREETS AND ROADS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 50. SUBDIVISION OF LAND - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 51 SWIMMING POOLS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 51A. TANNING FACILITIES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 52. TAXATION - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 53. TAXICABS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 53A. TENANT DISPLACEMENT - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 54. TRANSIENT LODGING FACILITIES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 55. TREE CANOPY - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 56. URBAN RENEWAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 56A. VIDEO GAMES - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 57. WEAPONS - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 59. ZONING - REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 60. SILVER SPRING, BETHESDA, WHEATON AND MONTGOMERY HILLS PARKING LOT DISTRICTS - REGULATIONS
MISCELLANEOUS MONTGOMERY COUNTY REGULATIONS
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Sec. 1-203. Applicability of County legislation in municipalities.
   (a)    Purpose. The County Council and the County Executive find that it is in the public interest:
      (1)   to foster the concept of municipal home rule;
      (2)   to encourage comity between the County and its municipal corporations;
      (3)   to prevent dual regulations and conflicts in laws between the County and municipal corporations; and
      (4)   to provide for the efficient use of public funds and services by establishing limitations, with specified exceptions, on the applicability and enforceability within municipal borders of County local laws and regulations when the municipal corporations have the power to enact their own legislation on the same subject matter.
   (b)    Definition of legislation. In this section, legislation means any form of County or municipal legislative enactment, including an existing or new law, ordinance, or resolution.
   (c)    Standards governing the applicability of County legislation within municipal corporations. Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, legislation enacted by the County does not apply within the boundaries of a municipal corporation in the County if the legislation:
      (1)   by its terms exempts all municipal corporations;
      (2)   conflicts with legislation of the municipal corporation enacted under a grant of legislative authority provided either by public general law or its charter; or
      (3)   relates to a subject with respect to which the municipal corporation has a grant of legislative authority provided either by public general law or its charter and the municipal corporation, by ordinance or charter amendment having prospective or retrospective applicability, or both:
         (A)   specifically exempts itself from the County legislation; or
         (B)   generally exempts itself from all County legislation covered by the grants of authority to the municipal corporation.
   (d)    Exceptions to general exemption from County legislation. A municipal corporation may establish one (1) or more exceptions to the general exemption under subsection (c)(3)(B) of this section by referencing specific county legislation in the ordinance or Charter amendment.
   (e)    Categories of County legislation applicable in municipalities.
      (1)   If a municipal corporation specifically references County legislation as an exception under subsection (d) of this section, the County legislation referenced applies within the municipal corporation.
      (2)   Notwithstanding subsections (c)(2) and (c)(3), the following categories of County legislation, if otherwise within the scope of legislative powers granted to the County by the General Assembly, shall nevertheless apply in all municipalities in the County:
         (A)   County legislation where a law enacted by the General Assembly so provides;
         (B)   County revenue or tax legislation, subject to the Tax Property Article of the Maryland Code.
   (f)    Emergency override authority. The County declares that it will not exercise the authority granted to it by the General Assembly under section 2B(b)(3), article 23A, Annotated Code of Maryland 1957, as amended. (1987 L.M.C., ch. 35, § 1; 2013 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1)
   Editor’s note—See County Attorney Opinion dated 12/6/02-A discussing the application of Chapter 19 in Friendship Heights. See County Attorney Opinion dated 5/6/98 indicating that the County Council, sitting as a Board of Health, may enforce County law regarding group homes in the eight home-rule municipalities that have not adopted their own law.
   Cross reference-Administration and enforcement of legislation in municipal corporations and special taxing districts, § 2-96.