PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

H.B. 440

Committee on Critical Areas and the Critical Area Commission will look into various
issues of concern to the counties and municipalities. The Commission will also be working
with Baltimore County as it completes its four-year comprehensive review to see if there
may be ways to deal with these issues within the framework of the County program, rather
than pass a law that would affect the entire shoreline.

For these reasons, I have vetoed House Bill 440.

Sincerely,

Parris N. Glendening

Governor

House Bill No. 440

AN ACT concerning

Critical Area - Impervious Surfaces - Exemption

FOR the purpose of exempting certain surfaces from the calculation of certain
impervious surfaces under the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Program.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 8-1808.3
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 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 - Natural Resources

8-1808.3.

(a)     This section applies notwithstanding:

(1)     Any other provision of this subtitle; or

(2)     Any criteria or guideline of the Commission adopted under this subtitle.

(b)     This section controls over any other requirement concerning impervious
surfaces limitations in limited development areas and resource conservation areas in the
critical area.

(C) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, ANY CALCULATION OF AREA COVERED
BY MAN-MADE IMPERVIOUS SURFACES MAY NOT INCLUDE AN AREA COVERED BY A
GAPPED WOODEN DECK WITH PERVIOUS SURFACE UNDERNEATH, OR BY THE
WATER SURFACE OF A SWIMMING POOL.

[(c)] (D) On or before December 31, 1990, a local jurisdiction shall amend its
local critical area protection program to meet the provisions of this section.

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