1976

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 227

(2) IF A COMMISSIONER DOES NOT EXPEND ALL OF THE
AMOUNT OF THE ALLOCATION AVAILABLE FOR THE COMMISSIONER'S
DISTRICT UNDER PARAGRAPH (1) OF THIS SUBSECTION, ANY AMOUNT OF
THE UNSPENT PORTION OF THE AVAILABLE ALLOCATION MAY BE
TRANSFERRED, BY UNANIMOUS, RECORDED VOTE, DURING A PUBLIC
SESSION, OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO ANOTHER
COMMISSIONER FOR EXPENDITURE IN THE OTHER COMMISSIONER'S
DISTRICT.

[(2)] (3) In case of special necessity, however,
arising from floods or other unusual damages, [he] A COMMISSIONER
may be authorized by a unanimous vote of the board of county
commissioners to expend such other sum as it may direct.

[(3)] (4) The county commissioner in each
commissioner district shall act as supervisor of roads and
bridges in [his] THAT commissioner district and shall have
exclusive charge and oversight of said roads and bridges and all
repairs thereto.

[(4)] (5) (I) Before any bill for work on roads and
bridges shall be submitted to the board of county commissioners,
it shall be first examined and marked "approved" by the
commissioner having charge of the commissioner district in which
the work was done.

(II) All bills presented for payment in the
office of the county commissioners shall be at all times open to
the inspection of the public during office hours and under the
direction of an employee of the office.

[(5)] (6) (I) Each county commissioner shall inspect
all the public roads and bridges in the commissioner district
from which [he] THE COMMISSIONER is elected, at least twice in
every year; one inspection shall be between the first day of
January and the first day of April; one inspection shall be
between the first day of August and the first day of November.

(II) [He] EACH COMMISSIONER shall inspect all
repairs to the public roads and bridges in [his commissioner] THE
COMMISSIONER'S district as soon as possible after such repairs
are made, and unless the contract for [said] THE repairs has been
fully complied with [he] THE COMMISSIONER shall refuse to approve
the bill for the [same] REPAIRS.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved May 21, 1985.