HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Upon conviction [by a court of competent jurisdiction], any
person who alters, [or] changes, or in any manner obstructs or
encroaches on any of the roads, or cuts down, or destroys,
defaces or injures any of the bridges, causeways, boundaries,
marks, directions or other establishment relating to county
roads, shall be fined not [exceeding] MORE THAN $25, according to
the nature and degree of the offense. (P.L.L., 1860, Art. 21,
sec. 234; 1888, Art. 22, sec. 338; 1930, sec. 706; 1957 Code,
sec. 516.)

27-4. Same; by setting out fences.

(A)  Upon complaint of [one] 1 or more taxpayers of the
county to the County Commissioners[,] of any person having
encroached upon or obstructed the county roads[,] by setting out
fences, or hauling or throwing obstructions on [said] THE roads,
the County Commissioners shall direct the County Surveyor to make
THAT a survey of [said] THE road and ascertain BE PERFORMED AND
the correct location of the center line BE ASCERTAINED.

(B)   [, and after] AFTER marking with stakes the outside
lines of [said] THE road as originally laid out, [he] THE COUNTY
SURVEYOR shall report to the County Commissioners, at their next
meeting, the name of such person who has encroached upon with
fences or otherwise obstructed [said] THE road.[; the] THE County
Commissioners shall then pass an order notifying [such] THAT
person to set back his fences so as to give to [said] THE road
its legal width, or to remove the obstructions, as the case may
be, and place a copy of [said] THE order in the hands of the
sheriff of [said] THE county.[, who] THE SHERIFF shall notify the
person to whom the notice is directed, by reading [the same] IT
to him, and return [said] THE order to the Commissioners, with
the day and date of the giving of [said] THE notice to the person
[therein] mentioned IN IT, endorsed upon [the same] IT. (P.L.L.,
1888, Art. 22, sec. 339; 1930, sec. 707; 1957 Code, sec. 517.
1880, ch. 311.)

27-5. Removal of weeds, etc.

All persons who own improved lands along or adjacent to any
of the improved public highways or roads of Washington County
[are required to] SHALL cut down and remove from and along such
roads and highways all briars, undergrowth, bushes, and weeds on
or before [the fifteenth day of] June 15 in each [and every]
year.[, and upon] UPON THE failure of any [such] land owner to
comply with the provisions of this section, the County
Commissioners [of Washington County shall], at the expense of
[said] THE county, SHALL have such briars, undergrowth, bushes,
and weeds cut and removed.[, and for so doing the said] THE
County Commissioners shall be reimbursed FOR all costs and
reasonable expenses necessarily incurred IN THIS WORK, to be
recovered from the party or parties [so] delaying or refusing to
cut and remove [such] THE briars, undergrowth, bushes, and weeds
in the same manner as debts of like amounts are recoverable.
(P.L.L., 1930, Art. 22, sec. 708; 1957 Code, sec. 518. 1924, ch.
520; 1966, ch. 332.)