HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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provided for the improvement of private roads;
providing that the county commissioners may set the
applicable rate of interest; and generally relating to
interest on county funds provided for certain road
improvements.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Charles County
Section 348A

Article 9 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1969 Edition and 1977 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland read(s) as follows:

Article 9 - Charles County

348A.

The County Commissioners may construct and improve
roads and drainage incident to construction or improvements
on or along private roads after the approval of a petition
of the majority of the property owners whose property abuts
on the road to be constructed or improved requesting that
the roads be taken into the County Road System. In the
exercise of the powers granted by this Section, the County
Commissioners may by proper ordinance, passed in accordance
with the provisions of Section 3 of Article 25 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, adopt all necessary rules and
conditions for the acceptance, construction and maintenance
of roads or other authorized improvements by the County.
The ordinance shall also provide for the method of
determination of the annual benefit assessments to be levied
against the abutting properties for the purpose of
reimbursing the County for the cost of the improvements and
the time and manner of payment, but not to exceed ten years..
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAY CHARGE INTEREST ON THE AMOUNT
OF COUNTY FUNDS PROVIDED TO MAKE THE IMPROVEMENTS PROVIDED
FOR IN THIS SECTION. THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SHALL
DETERMINE ANY RATE OF INTEREST IMPOSED. Annual benefit
assessments shall be a first lien upon the property against
which they are assessed, until paid, subject only to prior
State and County taxes, and if any property be sold for
State and County taxes, and there remains a surplus, then
the County Commissioners may upon petition to the Circuit
Court be allowed the payment of their lien.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 20, 1982.