HARRY HUGHES, Governor 1025
The Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County
Section 26-1 E.
Article 19 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1978 Edition, as amended)
BY repealing and reenacting, with without amendments,
Article 25 - County Commissioners
Section 3(r)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1973 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as
follows:
Article 19 - St. Mary's County
26-1.
[E. Hearings required on ordinances. Except as
otherwise provided, no ordinance shall be adopted by the
County Commissioners until ten (10) days after a public
hearing has been held on the proposed ordinance. Prior
notice of such public hearing, together with a fair summary
of the proposed ordinance, shall be published in at least
one (1) newspaper of general circulation in the county once
each week for three (3) successive weeks. "Ordinance" means
a permanent rule of law enacted by the County
Commissioners.]
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed, amended, or
enacted to read as follows:
Article 25 - County Commissioners
3.
(r) An act, ordinance, or resolution may not be
adopted by the county commissioners, under the powers
conferred by this section, until ten days after a public
hearing has been held on the proposed act, ordinance, or
resolution. Prior notice of the public hearing, together
with a fair summary of the proposed act, ordinance, or
resolution, shall be published in at least one newspaper of
general circulation in the county once each week for two
successive weeks. This subsection is not applicable to any
administrative act or resolution adopted by the county
commissioners of Dorchester [,] OR Harford [, or St.
Mary's ] County. For purposes of this subsection,
"ordinance" means a permanent rule of law enacted by the
county commissioners, and "resolution" means a formal
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