WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                        Ch. 6

other two viewers [being] SHALL BE present. If the viewers
report that the drainage is not practicable or that it will not
benefit the public health, or any public highway, or be conducive
to the general welfare of the community, and the board of county
commissioners shall approve such finding, the petition shall be
dismissed at the cost of the petitioners. If the report of the
viewers is favorable to the project and the board of county
commissioners shall so find after hearing all the evidence, they
shall make such recommendations as they think proper to the
viewers, and direct them to make a complete survey, plans and
specifications, and estimate of cost for the tiles, drains or
levees, or other improvements, and fix a time when said engineer
and viewers shall complete and file their final reports, not
exceeding sixty days, unless extended by the commissioners in
writing.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Punctuation error and incomplete sentence in
Article 25, § 99.

Occurred: Prior to 1957 codification of the Annotated
Code of Maryland.

Article 25A - Chartered Counties of Maryland

5.

The following enumerated express powers are granted to and
conferred upon any county or counties which hereafter form a
charter under the provisions of Article XI-A of the Constitution,
that is to say:

(J)

To prevent, abate and remove nuisances; to prevent the
introduction of contagious diseases into such county; to regulate
the places of manufacturing soap and candles and fertilizers,
slaughterhouses, packinghouses, canneries, factories, workshops,
mines, manufacturing plants and any and all places where
offensive trades may be carried on, or which may involve or give
rise to unsanitary conditions or conditions detrimental to
health.

Nothing in this article or section contained shall be
construed to affect in any manner any of the powers and duties of
EITHER the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene or THE
SECRETARY OF THE ENVIRONMENT OR any public general laws of the
State relating to the subject of health.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Omission in reference which fails to reflect
the 1987 reorganization of State government.

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