[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of
Worcester County 8-25-1981 by Bill No. 81-5 as Title 1 of the General Provisions Article
of the 1981 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
(a)
Code. The 1981 Edition of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland, published by Michie/Bobbs
Merrill, Charlottesville, Virginia, under the direction of the Board
of County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland, and edited
by Edward H. Hammond, Jr., and John A. Yankus, is hereby legalized.
The Code shall contain all Public Local Laws relating to Worcester
County, other than those applying solely within the corporate limits
of the incorporated municipalities, as from time to time are duly
passed. The Code shall be the official Code of Worcester County and
shall be deemed and taken in all the courts of the state and by all
other public officials of the state and of its several political subdivisions
to be evidence of the Public Local Laws of Worcester County in existence
at the time of compilation.
(b)
Supplementation. The Code hereby adopted shall
be supplemented on a regular basis by the County Commissioners as
Public Local Laws are amended, repealed, enacted or supplemented.
(a)
Name. The name of this Code shall be the "Code
of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland."
(b)
Citation. The preferred citation for this
Code shall be: Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland,
followed by the name of the Article and section number and subsection
designation as appropriate. For example, this provision should be
cited as follows: Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland,
General Provisions Article, § GP 1-102(b).
It is hereby declared to be the legislative purpose and intent
of this Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland, to
encompass herein all of those local laws governing Worcester County.
It is the legislative intent that, while this Code encompasses all
of the Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland, there will
be from time to time resolutions of the County Commissioners enacted
pursuant to this Code and other statutory authority which shall have
the force of law. The County Commissioners, as they deem fit, may
from time to time publish such resolutions as part of this Code by
way of appendix. In addition to those resolutions so published herein,
the County Commissioners shall maintain a resolution book to include
all resolutions passed by the County Commissioners. The County Commissioners
may, by resolution, include other appendixes to this Code to include
other items which they may from time to time deem appropriate. Pertinent
records with regard to the adoption of the Code Home Rule form of
government shall be included as an appendix.
[1]
Editor's Note: Chapter 527 of the Laws of 1997 (House
Bill 1183) repealed the requirement that the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Worcester County record and index ordinances, resolutions
and regulations duly adopted by the County Commissioners. The County
Attorney states, therefore, that the Code of Local Laws of Worcester
County shall constitute the full and complete Code. A complete copy
of Ch. 527 of the Laws of 1997 (House Bill 1183) is included as Appendix
P of the Code.
The format of the Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County
shall be in divisions as follows: (1) Articles, which shall be the
largest divisions of the Code, shall be identified by name and shall
be divided into; (2) Titles, which shall be identified by Arabic number
and name and which shall be divided into; (3) Subtitles, which shall
be identified by four-digit Arabic numbers, the first of which digits
shall correspond to the number of the title in which the section is
found; the second of which digits shall be separated from the first
by a hyphen and shall correspond to the number of subtitle in which
the section is found. The next two digits shall be the section number
within the subtitle commencing with 01 and continuing sequentially
as needed. Sections may, as determined necessary and appropriate,
be likewise divided into subsections identified by lower-case letters
and further divided into sub-subsections and paragraphs as may be
required and as may be identified for the purposes of clarity.
The County Commissioners of Worcester County shall have all
of the powers of a Code Home Rule County as prescribed by § 13
of Article 25B of the Annotated Code of Maryland, 1957 Edition, as
the same may be from time to time amended, including, without limitation,
all those powers accorded Code Home Rule Counties or specifically
Worcester County in Articles 25, 25A and 25B of the Annotated Code
of Maryland, 1957 Edition, as the same may be from time to time amended,
as well as powers accorded the County Commissioners of Worcester County
under other Public General or Public Local Laws. It is the legislative
intent that, in addition to all other powers, the County Commissioners
of Worcester County shall have specifically all powers accorded County
Commissioners under Article 25 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
1957 Edition, as the same may be from time to time amended, subject
only to the limitations of Article 25 which are coupled with such
powers and not subject to any limitations set forth in Articles 25
and 25A not coupled with any powers accorded thereby unless otherwise
made applicable in Worcester County.
