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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 448

AN ACT concerning

Frederick County - Building and Housing Codes

FOR the purpose of providing that in Frederick County, the
exemption for farm buildings from the building and
housing codes does not apply to certain residential
buildings.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 25 - County Commissioners

Section 3(s)(2)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

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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
provisions for enforcement, including the appointment and
maintenance of inspectors and including penalties for a
violation of either a code or the regulations thereunder.

(iv) Any building or housing code may
incorporate by reference a portion or all, if applicable, of
either a building code or a housing code, as the case may