PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 631

lines; providing for the application of this Act; and generally relating to historic
district commissions and historic area zoning in certain counties and any municipal
corporation.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 66B - Zoning and Planning

Section 8.01 through 8.06, inclusive, and 8.08 through 8.15, inclusive
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1988 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 66B - Zoning and Planning
Section 8.07

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1988 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 66B - Zoning and Planning

Section 8.14

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1988 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

Article 66B - Zoning and Planning

8.01.

(a) (1) The preservation of SITES, structures AND DISTRICTS of [historic]
HISTORICAL, ARCHEOLOGICAL, OR [and] architectural [value] SIGNIFICANCE
together with [the] THEIR appurtenances and environmental settings is a public purpose
in this State.

(2)     The board of county commissioners of every county in the State and the
mayor and city council, by whatever name known, of every municipal corporation, except
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City may, by ordinance or resolution regulate
the construction, alteration, reconstruction, moving and demolition [of] AFFECTING
such SITES; OR structures; OR SUCH SITES AND STRUCTURES WITHIN DISTRICTS AND
their appurtenances and environmental settings within their respective limits. Hereafter
in this subtitle such counties and municipal corporations are referred to as "county" or
"counties" or "municipal corporation" as the case may be.

(3)     (I) In this subtitle THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

(II) [, "structure"] "STRUCTURE" means a combination of material to
form a construction that is stable; including among other things, buildings, stadiums,
reviewing stands, platforms, stagings, observation towers, radio towers, water tanks and

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