HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 78

(House Bill 1472)

AN ACT concerning

Calvert County - Building and Housing Code

FOR the purpose of including certain farm dwellings in
Calvert County within operation of the building and
housing code of Calvert County; and clarifying the
organization of the law.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 25 - County Commissioners

Section 3(s)(2)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

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3.

(s) (2) (I) The County Commissioners of Kent County
shall adopt, and from time to time may amend or supplement,
a building code and a housing code. The county
commissioners of Harford, Frederick, Caroline, Calvert,
Dorchester, and Worcester counties may adopt, and from time
to time may amend, supplement, or abrogate, a building code
and a housing code, or either of such codes.

(II)  The building code shall provide and
prescribe regulations for the issuance of building permits
to be required prior to the construction or improvement of
any buildings; and the code shall prescribe standards of
construction, maintenance, and repair, covering structural
safety, fire prevention requirements, lights and
ventilation, and proper means of ingress and egress. The
housing code shall provide and prescribe regulations and
standards for human habitation, covering sanitation, density
of occupancy, open-space requirements, rodent infestation,
and human standards of occupancy.

(III) A building code and a housing code,
when or if adopted, and all regulations thereunder, shall be
designed to assure and protect the public health, safety,
comfort, and moral and economic welfare. They may include