[HISTORY: Adopted and amended as indicated in text.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
County Commissioners — See Ch. 27.
[1969 Code, sec. 50. P.L.L., 1969, ch. 771]
A.
Acquisition of areas authorized. The County Commissioners shall,
within six months after July 1, 1969, acquire two areas of land on
navigable waters, one to be located in the Fifth Election District
and the other in the Third Election District of Charles County, for
use as public landings. Such areas may be acquired by purchase, gift,
lease or otherwise.
B.
Construction and maintenance of landing facilities. The County Commissioners
shall maintain a safe wharf suitable for loading and unloading vessels
engaged in the sale and purchase of seafood or other proper landing
facilities at each such location and shall provide adequate approaches
and parking facilities for commercial vehicles engaged in or related
to the seafood industry. In discharging its duties under this subsection,
the County Commissioners may either construct and maintain such facilities,
lease or contract for same or engage in any combination thereof and,
so far as practical, shall utilize funds, services and facilities
available through the Department of Chesapeake Bay Affairs, the Corps
of Engineers and other agencies, governmental or otherwise, concerned
with the improvement and maintenance of marine facilities.
C.
Adoption of use regulations and penalty provisions. The County Commissioners
are empowered to establish regulations for the use of such public
landings and to establish penalties for violations of this chapter.
D.
Advisory committee established. Before the County Commissioners shall
make any final determination under this chapter respecting the acquisition
of any area or the establishment of any facilities at such location
or adopt any regulation for the use of such locations as public landings,
they shall advise with a committee to be composed of not less than
three licensed commercial watermen, who are citizens of Charles County
and who are familiar with seafood activities and potentialities in
the election districts affected, as well as the most advantageous
locations for the establishment and maintenance of public landings
therein. Such committee shall be appointed by the Commercial Watermen's
Association(s) of Charles County, but upon the failure of such Association(s)
to constitute such a committee, after reasonable notice, the County
Commissioners may, for a period not to exceed their unexpired term
of office, name such committee, to be composed of not fewer than three
watermen having the qualifications herein set forth.
