Ch. 352

LAWS OF MARYLAND

roads and bridges in the county; said levy shall not exceed
thirty-five cents on the one hundred dollars of the entire tax
levy for the county.

(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.

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

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

(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 board of 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.

(6)  (i) Each county commissioner shall inspect all
the public roads and bridges in the commissioner district from
which 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) Each commissioner shall inspect all
repairs to the public roads and bridges in the commissioner's
district as soon as possible after such repairs are made, and
unless the contract for the repairs has been fully complied with
the commissioner shall refuse to approve the bill for the
repairs. ]

(B) (1) THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, AS A BOARD,
SHALL HAVE CONTROL AND JURISDICTION OVER COUNTY ROADS AND
BRIDGES.

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