MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            1849

(a) [All persons, firms or corporations before
erecting, constructing, repairing, altering or remodeling
any building or structure, or part thereof, in Carroll
County shall prior to commencing such erecting,
constructing, repairing, altering or remodeling] PRIOR TO
COMMENCING THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR,
ALTERATION, OR REMODELING OF ANY BUILDING OR STRUCTURE, A
PERSON, FIRM, OR CORPORATION SHALL make application to
the Supervisor of Assessments for Carroll County for a
[Building Permit; and no erecting, constructing,
repairing, altering or remodeling] BUILDING PERMIT. NO
ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, ALTERATION, OR REMODELING
shall be undertaken until a building permit has been
obtained[, provided, however, that] HOWEVER, the
County Commissioners of Carroll County [shall have the
authority to] MAY adopt regulation exempting from the
provisions of this section [such erecting, constructing,
repairing, altering or] ANY ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION,
REPAIR, ALTERATION, OR remodeling [as] THAT they shall
designate where the value does not exceed $500[.00].

(e) If any person, firm, or corporation shall
proceed to erect, construct, repair, alter, or remodel
any building or structure, or part [thereof], without
first having obtained a building permit, as [herein]
required, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction [thereof] before a [magistrate or circuit
court for Carroll County] COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION
shall be fined not [less than twenty—five dollars
($25.00) and costs nor] more than [one hundred dollars (]
$100[.00)] and costs[ , which]. THIS fine shall be in
addition to any fee charged for obtaining the building
permit required under this section.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections
8, 9, and 10 of the Public Local Laws of Carroll County
being Article 7 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1965 Edition) be and they are hereby repealed:

Article 7
8.

[The Circuit Court for Carroll County shall hold
four terms of court for common law proceedings,
commencing respectively on the second Monday in February,
on the second Monday of May, on the second Monday of
August and on the second Monday of November in each and
every year, to which terms in May and November both grand
and petit jurors shall be summoned, and to which February
and August terms petit jurors only shall be summoned, and
to which August term the Circuit Court shall have the