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EXECUTIVE ORDERS

WHEREAS, The most logical department for the consolidation
of State environmental regulatory functions is the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; now,
therefore,

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDERED BY THE GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND
PURSUANT TO ARTICLE II, SECTION 24, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF
MARYLAND, That:

Article 25 - County Commissioners

171. Approval of form of petition and report; notice of
hearing; report open to inspection.

The county commissioners shall, at their first meeting
after receiving such petition and report, examine them, and
if they are found not to be in due form and in accordance
with the law they shall be referred back to the petitioners
to be corrected and returned to the county commissioners at
a subsequent meeting. If the petition and report are found
to be in due form and in accordance with the law, the county
commissioners shall appoint a day for a public hearing upon
the report and petition and shall give not less than ten
days' notice of the time and place of the hearing. Such
notice shall be published in a newspaper or newspapers
having a general circulation in the county or counties in
which the lands in the watershed association are located.
During this time a copy of the report shall be on file in
the office of the clerk of county commissioners, and shall
be open to the inspection of any landowners or other person
interested, and the notices shall so state. A notice of
this and all subsequent hearings shall be sent to the State
Department of Agriculture, State Soil Conservation
Committee, [and Water Resources Administration] THE
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE at least ten days prior to the
date of such hearing.

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

469. Junkyard or automobile graveyard adjoining body of
water.

(a) Any person or organization that owns, maintains or
causes to be maintained a junkyard or automobile graveyard,
as defined in § 8-801 of the Transportation Article,
lawfully in existence on January 1, 1972, which adjoins any
river, stream, or other body of water shall store and
maintain any trash, junk, automobiles, automobile tires,
other automobile parts and other refuse in such manner as to
prevent the dumping, depositing or transport of this matter
into the waters of the State, as defined in Title 8 of the
Natural Resources Article; inform the [Water Resources