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The "Friendship Heights Village Council," subject to the approval of the county council, may adopt regulations with respect to dumping of garbage, sanitation, erection of buildings, care of property, tearing up of streets, speed regulations, removal of snow and ice or other police or health regulations, and provide penalties for the violation thereof, as the village council may deem proper, which regulations may be enforced by or through the village council. In addition to enforcing such regulations by criminal prosecution, the village council may bring suit in the circuit court of Montgomery County, in the name of the "Friendship Heights Village Council," for which purpose said council shall be deemed a body corporate, to obtain a decree, order or judgment of that court compelling, by injunction or otherwise, compliance by any person with such regulations. The village council may also provide that if, after due notice, any regulation requiring the removal of unsightly weeds or debris from, or the abatement of any nuisance upon, any property within the village is not complied with by the owner of the property in a reasonable time, the village council shall have the authority to have said work done at a reasonable price and to assess the cost thereof against the property of the delinquent party, the same to be a lien against said property and to be collected in the same manner as the county taxes are collected and turned over to the treasurer of the village council. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 66-7; 1914, ch. 131, § 7; 1975, ch. 779, § 1; 1977, ch. 661, § 1.)
Members of the "Friendship Heights Village Council," for the purpose of making contracts or otherwise incurring labilities in the performance of the duties provided by this chapter, shall be considered in law as a corporation, and may not be held individually or personally liable in connection therewith. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 66-8; 1914, ch. 131, § 8; 1975, ch. 779, § 1.)
Editor’s note-The above section is described in Barlow v. Friendship Heights Citizens’ Committee, 276 Md. 89, 344 A.2d 415 (1975).
(a) The "Friendship Heights Village Council" may grade, pave, macadamize or otherwise improve any existing dedicated street, road or lane, or any county road, street or lane, within the special taxing area which has been or which may be acquired and opened for public use and to lay sidewalks and curbs thereon, and, subject to the approval of the county council of Montgomery County and after due publication of cost thereof, to assess the cost of the grading, paving, macadamizing, laying sidewalks and curbs, or otherwise improving, against the property abutting on that portion of the street, road, lane or sidewalks so improved, in proportion to the frontage of the abutting property; provided, the consent to the proposed improvements of the owners of two-thirds of the abutting property shall first have been obtained. A tax so assessed as provided in this section shall be payable to the county treasurer for the county in not more than three (3) annual installments as nearly equal as may be, the first installment to become due and payable the first day of July next succeeding the making of the special assessment as herein elsewhere provided and to be collected as county taxes in the county are collected. It shall be subject to interest from the first day of July until paid at the rate of six (6) percent per annum. Each annual installment shall become a lien against the abutting property. Any installment not paid by the first day of January following its becoming due shall be subject to the same penalties and shall be collected in the same manner as provided for the collection of unpaid county taxes in the county. All taxes assessed as provided in this section shall be paid over by the treasurer of the county to the treasurer of the "Friendship Heights Village Council," who shall devote these funds to the exclusive purpose of paying for special improvements herein provided for or any indebtedness which may be incurred therefor.
(b) The "Friendship Heights Village Council" may pave, grade, macadamize or otherwise improve the streets, roads, lanes, or sidewalks within the taxable area. Before any contract for works is entered into, or any obligation with respect thereto incurred, notice shall be given to the owners and others of record interested in the abutting property and an opportunity to be heard, the hearing to be before the "Friendship Heights Village Council" who shall decide the matters properly brought before them. Any party affected by the final decision of the village council made after that hearing shall have the right to appeal therefrom within ten (10) days to the circuit court of Montgomery County; provided that, until the first day of July, 1980, upon any petition received by the "Friendship Heights Village Council" of the owners of the two-thirds of the property subject to the assessment for the cost of proposed improvements abutting upon any street, road or lane to be graded, paved, macadamized or improved requesting the grading, paving, macadamizing or improving of any such streets, roads, lanes or sidewalks, the village council shall make the assessment against the abutting property owners to provide the funds for and cause to be performed the necessary work or construction in accordance with these provisions. The improvements shall be carried out to completion in accordance with these provisions for any request received prior to the first day of July, 1980. After that date, no petitions shall be received or acted upon.
(c) Montgomery County may receive by dedication or acquisition and may construct by special assessment or at county expense and maintain at county expense, any street or road within the special taxing area which is on a master plan or sector plan approved by the county council and adopted by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. (1980, ch. 230, § 1.)
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the “Friendship Heights Village Council” may not expend for material or work a sum exceeding $20,000 without having first advertised the specifications therefor and inviting bids for it, after which the village council may purchase whatever material or make contract for work or have the work done by employed labor or otherwise, as it may deem best.
(b) (1) In this subsection, “emergency” means an occurrence or condition that:
(i) The village council reasonably could not foresee; and
(ii) Requires an action to avoid or mitigate serious damage to public health, safety, or welfare.
(2) The village council, by majority vote, may enter into a contract exceeding $20,000 without seeking competitive bids if the procurement is in response to an emergency.
(c) The village council may engage in cooperative procurement with other governmental entities in Montgomery County. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 66-10; 1922, ch. 343, § 8B; 1975, ch. 779, § 1; 1994, ch. 81, § 1; 2023, ch. 238, § 1.)
For the purpose of making improvements, provided for in the aforegoing sections or for the purpose of making improvements other than maintenance, the village council may borrow money and otherwise contract indebtedness and obligate the taxable area in amounts not exceeding in total at any time the sum of four (4) percent of the assessed valuation of real property other than operating real property of a public utility and ten (10) percent of the assessed valuation of operating real property of a public utility within the taxable area, and for these purposes the taxable area is constituted a corporation, and the village council is authorized to act for the corporation. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 66-11; 1922, ch. 343, § 8C; 1975, ch. 779, § 1; 2003, ch. 247.)
Editor’s note-The above section is described in Barlow v. Friendship Heights Citizens’ Committee, 276 Md. 89, 344 A.2d 415 (1975).
The treasurer of the "Friendship Heights Village Council" shall deposit all funds coming into his hands, as such, in whatever depositary or depositaries as directed by the majority vote of the village council, to his credit, as treasurer, and that the treasurer of the village council shall not dispose of any of the funds coming into his hands, as such treasurer, except upon check duly signed by him, as such treasurer, and countersigned by the chairman of the village council, or some member thereof acting as chairman. The acting chairman shall be duly authorized to act by resolution of the village council, which must be first placed upon the minutes of the village council, to be provided therefor. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 66-12; 1914, ch. 131, § 9; 1975, ch. 779, § 1.)