[HISTORY: Adopted by the County Commissioners of Kent County 4-3-1990
as Ch. 6, Art. IV, of the 1989 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Kent County Public Drainage Association is hereby created. It shall
have five (5) members appointed by the County Commissioners to serve for one
(1), two (2), three (3), four (4) and five (5) years on the original appointment
and, for each subsequent appointment, for a five-year term or until their
successors are appointed and have taken their positions. The Board of County
Commissioners of Kent County, Maryland, shall designate one (1) of its members
to be an ex officio member of the Association. From time to time, the members
of the Association shall select their Chairman. Vacancies among the appointive
members shall be filled by the County Commissioners for the unexpired terms.
Any person may be reappointed to the Association for successive terms. All
members of the Association shall be residents, property owners and registered
voters of Kent County.
Members of the Association shall not be paid any compensation for their
services but may be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in their duties.
The Board of County Commissioners of Kent County shall pay the proper and
necessary expenses of the Association.
A quorum of the Association shall be any three (3) members thereof.
It shall be the duty of the Association to recommend to the Board of
County Commissioners of Kent County the location or locations to establish
ditches, drains or canals and to cause to be constructed, straightened, widened
or deepened any ditch, drain or watercourse for the purpose of draining wet,
swampy or overflowed lands or lands subject to overflow and to assist the
Board of County Commissioners of Kent County in performing its duties as set
forth under Article 25, § 52 et seq., of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition) pertaining to draining lands.
