Montgomery County                           2711

the County Executive is hereby authorized to issue written safety
regulations restricting and/or limiting the movement or use of any
material platform hoist, bucket hoist, cranes, derricks, material hoist
towers, or any other device designed to hoist anything whatsoever
on or over any public street, right-of-way or public place.

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(b) (3) Before any license shall be granted pursuant to this
Section there shall be furnished the County, without cost to the
County, a public liability and property damage policy naming the
County as the insured and insuring the County against any loss, in-
jury or damage arising out of the granting of the license or from
any negligence or fault of said applicant, his equipment, his agents,
servants or employees in connection with such hoisting or with any
work related thereto, which said policy must meet the approval of the
County Attorney as to insurance companies, form and correctness,
and of the Director of the Department of Public Works as to suffi-
ciency of coverage, but in no event shall the policy limits be less than
bodily injury coverage of $250,000 for any one person, $500,000 for any
one accident and property damage coverage of $100,000 for one acci-
dent, $300,000 in the aggregate.

Sec. 14. Section 24-31, Chapter 24, title "Streets and Roads," of
the Montgomery County Code 1965, is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

24-31. Road construction to be authorized by County Executive;
Council to assess benefits.

No road shall be constructed by the County except pursuant to a
written order of the County Executive authorizing the construction
of such road. Whenever any such road construction in the County has
been so authorized, the cost of construction shall be assessed by the
County Council by resolution as a benefit to all property adjacent to
the right-of-way of such road and specially benefited by the con-
struction thereof; provided that :

(a)     Such cost of construction shall be assessed only to the
extent that any road construction code of the County in force at the
time construction is authorized provides for the assessment of such
cost or any portion thereof,

(b)    No such property shall be assessed in excess of the
amount by which such property is specially benefited by such construc-
tion, and

(c)    Property owned by the United States, the State, or any
governmental agency thereof, shall not be assessed for any portion of
such cost or construction.