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Master electricians, qualifications for various licenses, and
reinstatement of license, provisions altered; National Electrical Code,

adopted ..................................................................................................... 5507

Prince George's County -

National Electrical Code, 1996 edition adopted; overcurrent protection
and wiring methods, provisions repealed; fees for electrical permits

and inspections, adoption by resolution, provisions added .................. 5537

Elkton (Cecil County) - -

Annexation ....................................................................................................... 5422

New charter adopted....................................................................................... 5422

Eminent Domain SEE Condemnation
Employee Organizations SEE Unions
Employment SEE Work, Labor and Employment
Engineers - -

Trappe, town engineer, office created ............................................................ 5448

Entertainment SEE Art, Music and Cultural Affairs
Environmental Matters - -
Baltimore County -

Chesapeake Bay Critical Area -

Impervious surface requirements, altered; Water Quality Mitigation
Fund, established to fund water quality protection or restoration

projects .................................................................................................. 5493

Natural resource protection, controlled excavation, and forest

management, requirements and penalties added and amended ...... 5483

Requirements and development regulations, amended to conform to

State law and criteria; development review process streamlined .... 5482
Zoning regulations, amended to conform to State critical area law and
criteria; review of zoning issues streamlined; intrafamily transfer

process in R.C. 20 and R.C. 50 zones, provisions added ................... 5483

Government reorganized; Office of Finance and Office of Budget,
merged; bureaus within Department of Public Works and Department
of Environmental Protection and Resource Management, abolished

and created; Metropolitan District functions, transferred ................... 5488

Harford County -
Chesapeake Bay Critical Area -

Management Program, more recent program incorporated by

reference, and map changes incorporated .......................................... 5496

Overlay District, notice of application for boundary amendment,

provisions amended .............................................................................. 5497

Open space designation requirements, fee in lieu of designation,
provisions altered; in-kind services and/or products commensurate

with amount of fee in lieu of, provisions added .................................... 5498

Howard County -

Division and merger of residential property, plat definition of wetland

and floodplain limits, road right-of-way and resubdivision

requirements, residential lot usability, open space requirements,

driveways, and site development plan exemptions, provisions altered . 5501

Forest conservation requirements and exemptions, amended; forest

mitigation banking, provisions added.................................................... 5499

Queen Anne's County -

- 5571 -