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3050 LAWS OF MARYLAND Ch. 765
for levying for the cost thereof on the assessable basis
of the county or providing for the payment of the cost
thereof from the county's share of the State gasoline
tax; and to provide for establishing the office of county
roads engineer, and defining the duties and powers
thereof. In Charles County the construction,
reconstruction and maintenance of county roads is
performed by the State [Roads Commission] HIGHWAY
ADMINISTRATION as provided in [§§ 220, 22 1 and 222 of
Article 89B of this Code, as amended from time to time]
§8-634 OF THE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE, and the powers of
the County Commissioners, insofar as not governed by the
provisions of [Article 89B] TITLE 8 OF THE TRANSPORTATION
ARTICLE, are controlled by the provisions of §§ 280
through 290, inclusive, of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Charles County, as amended from time to time, and not
by the provisions of this subsection. The provisions of
this subsection will not be applicable in Kent County.
50.
The county commissioners of the several counties of
the State, the highways commission thereof or other
public boards or officers having control over the public
bridges and culverts of said counties, [the State Roads
Commission in the case of bridges and culverts under its
control,] the public boards or officers having control
over bridges between adjacent counties, turnpikes or
plank road companies, and bridge companies or other
individuals or corporations owning or controlling private
or quasi public bridges used by the public for
compensation or otherwise, shall have the power and right
to regulate the weight of wagons, trucks, road engines,
road rollers, traction engines, threshing machines or
other vehicles of any kind passing over such bridges and
culverts, and the rate of speed of such vehicles while
passing over the same, by posting and maintaining
conspicuously at both ends of or entrances to said
bridges or culverts signboards with lettering not less
than a three inches in height, worded as follows, to wit:
"Warning Weight not to exceed (here insert numerals)
pounds. Speed not to exceed (here insert numerals)
miles per hour," which shall be taken to mean that no
vehicle of any kind, as above enumerated, weighing, with
or without any load which may be in or upon the same,
more than the number of pounds specified on said
signboard, shall pass or be drawn, driven, propelled or
in any other manner taken over said bridge or culvert,
and that no such vehicle of any kind as above enumerated
shall pass or be drawn, driven, propelled or in any other
manner taken over said bridge or culvert at a greater
rate of speed than that specified on said signboard;
provided, however, that no such sign or signs shall be
posted as above without authority from the chief engineer
of the State [Roads Commission] HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION
having first been had and obtained; and it is hereby made
the duty of said chief engineer of the State [Roads
Commission] HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, upon receiving a
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