2042                              MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

streets in the county, or at an intersection of a side street or side road with
a county or state highway in the county, in such a manner as to obstruct
the vision of the operators of vehicles as they reach such intersections,
they are hereby authorized and empowered to require the owner or owners
of such property located at such intersections to remove therefrom such
trees, bushes, vines, fences, signs or other obstructions within such time
as the county shall in its discretion determine to be just. Any owner of
such property failing to remove such obstruction within such time as may
be limited in the notice from the county to do so shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars
and not more than five hundred dollars; provided, however, that in addi-
tion to the criminal penalty herein provided for, the county shall have the
further right and power, after giving the aforesaid notice, and upon failure
of the owner of such property to comply therewith, to have such trees,
bushes, vines, fences, signs or other obstructions removed and charge the
cost of such removal to the owners of such property, which cost or charges
shall be a lien on such property and be collected in the same manner as
taxes are now collected.

18-11. Accident reports.

The Police [bureau] Department shall, upon application by any per-
son and the payment of a fee of one dollar furnish to such applicant a
certified copy of the [bureau's] department's record of any accident in
which a motor vehicle is in any manner involved.

Article II. Director of Traffic Engineering.

18-12.1. Department of Traffic Engineering.

A new [bureau] department is hereby created [within the depart-
ment of public safety] which shall hereafter be designated and known as
the [bureau] Department of Traffic Engineering, the [head] director of
which shall be the traffic engineer of Baltimore County. The [bureau]
department shall be responsible for traffic safety and engineering. The
traffic engineer of Baltimore County shall be responsible directly to the
[director of public safety] administrative officer and shall have such
duties and perform such functions relating to traffic safety and engineer-
ing as may be [delegated] assigned to him by the [director of public
safety, and shall have and perform such other duties and functions as
may from time to time be assigned him by director of the county] adminis-
trative officer or by legislative act of the County Council.

18-13. Authority to make rules and regulations.

In order to provide for the safe and expeditious movement of traffic in
the county, and to protect the safety of the citizens using the roads, streets,
alleys and highways in the county, either public or private, the Director
of [public safety] Traffic Engineering is hereby granted full power and
authority to do any and all of the following:

(1)   Conduct engineering and analyses of traffic accidents and engi-
neering in