HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 407

(House Bill 597)

AN ACT concerning

Frederick County - Hearing and Publication Requirements

FOR the purpose of exempting Frederick County from certain
hearing and publication requirements that concern
administrative acts and resolutions adopted by the
county commissioners.; and deleting an obsolete
reference.

BY repealing and reenacting, with 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 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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, FREDERICK, [ 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
expression of the opinion of an official body.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 6, 1980.