PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 478

(14) The State's Attorney of any county is authorized to prosecute a
municipal infraction and is authorized to enter a nolle prosequi in such cases or to place
such cases on the stet docket.

(15) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (14) of this subsection, a
municipality may designate an attorney to prosecute any municipal infraction in the same
manner as the State's Attorney of any county.

Article 25 - County Commissioners

10-I.

(a) The County Commissioners of St. Mary's County may regulate any public
road, street, avenue, lane, alley or bridge, sidewalk, curb, gutter, and storm drainage
facilities within St. Mary's County which is not within the corporate limits of any
incorporated city or town and which has not been designated or maintained as a part of
the State or federal highway system or any extension with respect to:

(1) The weight of vehicles;

(2) The parking of vehicles;

(3) The abandonment of vehicles;

(4) Use by private and public utilities in the construction and maintenance
necessitated by the performance of their purpose;

(5) The construction and maintenance of driveway connections where those
connections are provided;

(6) The speed of vehicles.

(b) The County Commissioners of St. Mary's County shall enact by ordinance
rules and regulations governing the grading, constructing, improving, maintaining, and
repairing of roads, now used by the public or intended for public use, including roads
proposed for subdivisions, whether now recorded or hereafter proposed, including
sidewalks, curbs and gutters, driveway entrances and storm drainage facilities and
appurtenances to be located within the subdivision.

(c) The County Commissioners of St. Mary's County shall provide appropriate
traffic control devices when mandated by the ordinance adopted pursuant to
SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION.

(d) The County Commissioners of St. Mary's County may regulate the
engineering, constructing, and accepting of any new public road, street, avenue, lane,
alley, bridge, sidewalk, curb, gutter, and storm drainage facilities into the county roads
system.

(e) In St. Mary's County, except as provided in subsection (f) of this section, any
violations of this subtitle shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than
$1,000 or six months imprisonment for each and every violation, or both fine and
imprisonment, in the discretion of the judge. Every day that said violation continues shall
be a separate offense.

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