WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 306

Article 25 - County Commissioners

171.

The county commissioners shall, at their first meeting after
receiving such petition and report, examine them, and if they are
found not to be in due form and in accordance with the law they
shall be referred back to the petitioners to be corrected and
returned to the county commissioners at a subsequent meeting. If
the petition and report are found to be in due form and in
accordance with the law, the county commissioners shall appoint a
day for a public hearing upon the report and petition and shall
give not less than ten days' notice of the time and place of the
hearing. Such notice shall be published in a newspaper or
newspapers having a general circulation in the county or counties
in which the lands in the watershed association are located.
During this time a copy of the report shall be on file in the
office of the clerk of county commissioners, and shall be open to
the inspection of any landowners or other person interested, and
the notices shall so state. A notice of this and all subsequent
hearings shall be sent to the State Department of Agriculture,
State Soil Conservation Committee, the Department of [Health and
Mental Hygiene] THE ENVIRONMENT and the Water Resources
Administration at least ten days prior to the date of such
hearing.

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] THE
ENVIRONMENT 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 §

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