1100                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 652

"Refuse—throwing or dumping; dumps, junk yards, etc.", be and it
is hereby repealed; and that a new Section 122A be and it is hereby
added to Article 25 of said Code (1957 Edition), to follow immediately
after Section 122 thereof, and to be under the new sub-title "Junk
Yards", and to read as follows:

Junk Yards
122A. Regulation of junk yards in counties.

(a)  The county commissioners or county council of each county in
the State may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for the
licensing, control, location and maintenance within their respective
limits of junk yards, public or private dumps, automobile junk yards
or outdoor places where old motor vehicles are stored in quantity or
dismantled, and lots on which refuse, trash or junk is deposited.

(b)  Any such rules and regulations shall be framed and designed
to protect the residents of the county from unpleasant and unwhole-
some conditions and neighborhoods, to preserve the beauty and
esthetic value of rural or residential areas, to safeguard the public
health and welfare, to promote good civic design, and to promote the
health, safety, morals, order, convenience and prosperity of the
community.

(c)  The rules and regulations may include a requirement that
such a junk yard or dump may not be maintained or operated within
the county limits until an annual license therefor has been obtained
from the county commissioners or county council, at such reasonable
fee as may be specified in the rules and regulations.

(d)  Prior to the adoption of any such rules and regulations, due
notice of their consideration shall be given in some newspaper of
general circulation in the county, in a notice published once a week
for not less than four successive weeks. The notice shall specify a
time and place at which the county commissioners or county council
will conduct a public hearing on the contents and adoption of the
rules and regulations; and the rules and regulations are not valid
unless the public hearing actually is held as advertised.

(e)  A violation of any such rule or regulation, including the
maintenance or operation of any such junk yard or dump without a
license, is a misdemeanor, subject upon conviction to a fine of not
less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00). Each day on which a violation
continues is a separate offense.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
on June 1, 1961.

Approved May 3, 1961.

CHAPTER 652

(Senate Bill 179)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section (b)
of Section 156 of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland