Ch. 631                                    1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

towers, trestles, BRIDGES, piers, paving, bulkheads, wharves, sheds, coal bins, shelters,
fences and display signs VISIBLE OR INTENDED TO BE VISIBLE FROM A PUBLIC WAY.
The term also includes natural land formations and appurtenances and environmental
settings. The term shall be construed as if followed by the words "or part thereof."
THEREOF".

(III)   "Appurtenances" and "environmental settings" include walkways
and driveways (whether paved or not), trees, landscaping, PASTURES, CROPLANDS,
WATERWAYS, and rocks.

(IV)   "SITE" MEANS THE LOCATION OF A SIGNIFICANT AN EVENT A
PREHISTORIC OR OF HISTORIC OCCUPATION OR ACTIVITY, SIGNIFICANCE OR A
STRUCTURE, WHETHER STANDING; OR RUINED, OR VANISHED, WHICH POSSESSES
HISTORIC, ARCHEOLOGICAL, OR CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE.

(V)     "DISTRICT" MEANS A SIGNIFICANT CONCENTRATION,
LINKAGE, OR CONTINUITY OF SITES, STRUCTURES, OR OBJECTS UNITED
HISTORICALLY OR AESTHETICALLY BY PLAN OR PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.

(VI)   "DEMOLITION" [ In this subtitle, "demolition"] includes[, in
municipal corporations only,] any wilful neglect in maintenance and repair of a structure,
not including any appurtenances and environmental settings, [held or used in a trade or
business or for the production of income,] that does not result from financial inability to
maintain and repair the structure and that threatens to result in any substantial
deterioration of the exterior features of the structure.

(VII)  "ROUTINE MAINTENANCE" MEANS WORK THAT DOES NOT
ALTER THE EXTERIOR FABRIC OR FEATURES OF A SITE OR STRUCTURE AND HAS
NO MATERIAL EFFECT ON THE HISTORICAL, ARCHEOLOGICAL, OR ARCHITECTURAL
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HISTORICAL SITE OR STRUCTURE.

(b) The purpose of an ordinance or resolution [in any county or municipal
corporation] ADOPTED UNDER THIS SUBTITLE shall be:

(1)     [to] TO safeguard the heritage of the county or municipal corporation
by preserving [the district] SITES, STRUCTURES, OR DISTRICTS therein which
[reflects] REFLECT elements of [its] cultural, social, economic, political,
ARCHEOLOGICAL, or architectural history;

(2)     [to] TO stabilize and improve property values [in] OF such [a district]
SITES, STRUCTURES, OR DISTRICTS;

(3)     [to] TO foster civic beauty;

(4)     [to] TO strengthen the local economy; and

(5)     [to] TO promote the [use and] preservation AND APPRECIATION of
[historic] THE SITES, STRUCTURES, AND districts for the education[,] AND welfare[,
and pleasure] of the residents of the county or municipal corporation.

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