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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 407

CHAPTER 408

(House Bill 599)

AN ACT concerning

Highways - Bridge Certain Signs - Frederick County

FOR the purpose of exempting Frederick County under certain
conditions from the requirement that the State Highway
Administration approve certain bridge traffic
regulations; and adding an alternative wording to
changing the requirements specified for certain signs.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation

Section 24-206

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1977 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 - Transportation

24-206.

(a)  The State Highway Administration or a local
authority may regulate the weight and speed of any vehicle
passing over any bridge or culvert under its jurisdiction,
by placing and maintaining signs at each end of the bridge
or culvert as provided in this section.

(b)  (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this
subsection, a local authority may not impose any restriction
under this section without approval of the State Highway
Administration.

(2) The following local authorities do not
require the approval of the State Highway Administration, if
they submit to that Administration, at the time of placing
any sign under this section, a copy of the engineering
analysis on which its restrictions are based:

(i) Anne Arundel County;

(ii) Baltimore County;

(iii) Carroll County;

(IV) FREDERICK COUNTY;

[(iv)] (V) Harford County;