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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 555

(a) In Calvert County, any person, firm or corporation
who shall keep, maintain or operate in the county any
junkyard, dump, automobile junkyard, automotive dismantler
or recycler facility, SCRAP METAL PROCESSING FACILITY,
outdoor place where old motor vehicles are stored or
dismantled, or lot on which refuse, trash or junk is
deposited within one hundred (100) feet of any interstate,
State or county highway or road shall screen or fence said
premises in such manner that they are not visible from any
such road or highway.

(d) The provisions of this section shall apply to all
junkyards, dumps, FACILITIES, automobile junkyards, outdoor
places where old motor vehicles are stored or dismantled, or
lots on which refuse, trash or junk is deposited, created
after June 1, 1967, and shall also apply to all such
[junkyards, etc., eighteen (18)] PLACES 18 months after June
1, 1967.

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

469.

(a)  Any person or organization that owns, maintains or
causes to be maintained a junkyard, automotive dismantler or
recycler facility, SCRAP METAL PROCESSING FACILITY, 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 Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Water
Resources Administration of provisions planned or made to
prevent the dumping, depositing or transport of this matter
into the waters of the State; and comply with the provisions
of standards and specifications of the Water Resources
Administration as these relate to the erection of retaining
walls, or the use of devices or procedures to restrain the
dumping, depositing or transport of this matter into the
waters of the State.

(b)  Where the owners and operators of a junkyard,
automotive dismantler or recycler facility, SCRAP METAL
PROCESSING FACILITY, or an automobile graveyard, as defined
in § 8-801 of the Transportation Article, producing,
collecting, retaining, throwing, dumping or depositing any
trash, junk or other refuse have not erected retaining walls
or other restraining devices or procedures approved by the
Water Resources Administration, the presence of any trash,
junk, automobiles, automobile tires, other automobile parts
or other refuse in waters of the State or on embankments or
other sites where it may readily fall into or be transported