HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1447

(House Bill 1205)

AN ACT concerning

Calvert County - Water and Sewerage -
Minimum Health Requirements

FOR the purpose of repealing certain provisions relating to
minimum health requirements with respect to water and
sewerage for lots and plats of subdivisions in Calvert
County.

BY repealing

Article 43 - Health

Section 396A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 43 - Health

[396A.

(a) Anything in this article or in any regulations of
the State Board of Health to the contrary notwithstanding, a
lot in any platted subdivision of land in Calvert County
shall be deemed prima facie to satisfy such law or
regulations if said lot contains a minimum of fifteen
thousand (15,000) square feet meeting the minimum
percolation test requirements. The plat shall be approved
unless good cause to the contrary is shown by the approving
authority.

(b) In Calvert County topography on a subdivision plat
shall be shown on five-foot contours, provided, however,
that if ground slope is sufficiently steep to indicate
existing surface configuration on larger contours the
approving authority may permit use of a larger contour
interval.

(c) (1) In Calvert County, if the approving authority
shall refuse approval of the site, the preliminary plat, or
the final plat, it shall indicate in writing such refusal to
the person submitting the plat, setting forth the specific
grounds for the refusal and such person shall have the right
to appeal the decision of the approving authority to the
County Commissioners acting as the local board of health.

(2) Such appeal shall be commenced by filing
with the president of the local board of health a copy of
the letter of refusal and any pertinent plat, drawing or