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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 23

(Senate Bill 585)

AN ACT concerning

Charles County — Roads and Bridges

FOR the purpose of clarifying language concerning the
powers of the County Commissioners of Charles
County; and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 348A

Article 9 — Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1969 Edition and 1975 Supplement, as amended
by Chapter 236 of the Acts of 1975)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 348A of the Public Local Laws of
Charles County being Article 9 of the Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1969 Edition and 1975 Supplement, as amended
by Chapter 236 of the Acts of 1975) be and it is hereby
repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

Article 9

348A.

The County Commissioners [of Charles County are
hereby authorized to] MAY construct and improve roads and
drainage incident to construction or improvement on or
along private roads after the approval of a petition of
the majority of the property owners whose property abuts
on the road to be constructed or improved requesting that
the roads be taken into the County Road System. In the
exercise of the powers granted by this Section, the
County Commissioners may [be] BY proper ordinance, passed
in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of [of]
Article 25 of the Annotated Code of Maryland [(1957
Edition, as amended)], adopt all necessary rules and
conditions for the acceptance, construction and
maintenance of roads [and/]or other authorized
improvements by the County. The ordinance shall also
provide for the method of determination of the annual
benefit assessments to be levied against the abutting
properties for the purpose of reimbursing the County for
the cost of the improvements and the time and manner of
payment, but not to exceed ten years. Annual benefit
assessments shall be a first lien upon the property
against which they are assessed, until paid, subject only
to prior State and County taxes, and if any property be
sold for State and County taxes, and there remains a
surplus, then the County Commissioners may upon petition
to the Circuit Court be allowed the payment of their