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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 215

by an attack by a dog or dogs, shall receive an award
paid out of the dog license fund if the owner of the
dog or dogs cannot be determined; and clarifying
language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses
Section 194(j)(l) and 198
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 56 - Licenses

194.

(j) (1) The county commissioners of Caroline and
Worcester counties are hereby authorized and empowered, in
order to safeguard the health, safety and public welfare of
the residents of these counties to adopt rules and
regulations, by resolution [and/]or ordinance, for the
purpose of carrying out the powers hereinafter granted,
provided that [such] THE rules and regulations shall contain
proper standards for the exercise of the discretion
contained therein, and shall operate uniformly. The [said]
rules and regulations shall provide for the sale of dog
licenses in [said] THESE counties, the keeping of records of
all sales, the designation of persons authorized to sell
[such] licenses and taking into custody and disposition of
any dog running at large within the limits of these
counties, with power to delegate by written contract for the
enforcement of [such] THE rules and regulations provided,
however, that in any [such] contract, the county
commissioners shall reserve the right to cancel, without
notice or recourse, [such] THE delegation for stated cause
or on thirty days notice without cause. Before the county
commissioners shall proceed to enforce any rule or
regulation adopted pursuant to the provisions of this
subsection, advertisement of a summary of [such] THE rule,
regulation, resolution or ordinance shall be made in some
newspaper published in the county once each week for two
successive weeks in order to provide any person, firm or
corporation adversely affected thereby an opportunity to be
heard by the county commissioners in opposition to the
adoption of [such] THE rule, regulation, resolution or
ordinance. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 197 of this
article, the county commissioners may in their discretion
use all or any part of the dog license tax for the
establishment AND MAINTENANCE of a pound, and for the
collection, CARE, or destruction of dogs. The county
commissioners are further authorized and empowered[,
hereby,] to appoint dog wardens and to provide compensation