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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 215

road as an emergency snow route and to provide for the
method of declaring a snow emergency; making this Act an
emergency measure; and generally relating to the authority
of the County Commissioners for Garrett County to regulate a
county road as an emergency snow route.

BY adding to

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Section 3(qq)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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3.

(QQ) IN GARRETT COUNTY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN

ACCORDANCE WITH § 21-1119 OF THE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE, THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF GARRETT COUNTY MAY:

(1)  DESIGNATE A COUNTY ROAD WITHIN THE COUNTY TO BE
AN "EMERGENCY SNOW ROUTE";

(2)  REGULATE TRAVEL UPON AN SUCH EMERGENCY SNOW
ROUTE;

(3)  PROVIDE FOR METHOD OF DECLARING A SNOW EMERGENCY;

(4)  PROHIBIT THE PARKING OR ABANDONING OF A VEHICLE
ON AN EMERGENCY SNOW ROUTE DURING A SNOW EMERGENCY; AND

(5)  AUTHORIZE THE REMOVAL OF A VEHICLE PARKED OR
ABANDONED ON AN EMERGENCY SNOW ROUTE DURING A SNOW EMERGENCY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 29, 1986.