The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-19
The Carroll County Road Law.

Following is the new road law for Carroll
county:
SECTION l. Be ii enacted 6y The General
assembly Of Maryland, That the following
additional sections be added to Article VII
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title Car
roll County, b-title. Roads, to be designated
sections 1879, 40, 141, 142, 143 and IA.
SEC. 1879. The County Commissioners OF
Carroll county shall, in the month of March,
in each and every year after the passage OF
this act, appoint three Road Commissioners
in each election district of the said county,
who shall be qualified voters and tax payers
in said election district, and who shall have
been bona .fde residents of the county for at
least two years prior to their appointment,
and of whom two shall be selected from the
dominant political party in the county, and
one from the minority party.
SEC. 40. Within twenty days after their
appointment, or as soon thereafter as may be,
the said road commissioners for each election
district shall take the oath of Office prescribed
by the constitution before the Clerk of the
Circuit Court, and shall organize by electing
one of their number chairman; two shall con
stitute quorum for the transaction of basi.
ness; when so organized they shall have full
control of the construction and repair of all
the public roads and the small bridges, not
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their respective districts, and shall have full
power to determine and fix the rate of special
tax to be levied as hereinafter provided for
the construction and maintenance of such Of
said roads and bridges as are wholly within
the limits of their respective districts, and to
cooperate with the road commissioners Of
adjoining districts in the construction and
maintenance of joint bridges between said
districts.
SEC. l41. Said road commissioners, or a
majority of them, shall have power to appoint
for their respective districts as many road
supervisors as they may deem advisable for
the proper maintenance of the roads and
bridges, as aforesaid, in said districts, and to
remove the same and appoint others in their
discretion, provided that in appointing such
supervisors preference shall be given to per.
sons through whose lands the roads are 10.
Gated; they shall direct said supervisors in
the work of constructing, repairing and main
tanning the roads and bridges under their
supervision and fix the price of labor and
material thereon.
SEC. 142. Said road commissioners, or n
majority of them, in each district, shall have
the power to and shall determine and fix the
rate of a special tax to be levied on all the
assessable property in said district, not to
exceed the sum of twenty cents on every one
hundred dollars valuation, for the construc-
ton and maintenance of said roads and bridges
in said districts and due proportion of the
Joint bridges between said district and adjoin-
ing districts, and shall report the rate so de-
termined and fixed to the County Commits
sioners on or before the first day of May in
each and every year; taxes at rates so reported
for the various districts shall be levied by the
County Commissioners when county taxes
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county tax collectors as county taxes are col.
lected and under the same provisions of law,
and shall be paid by said collectors TO the
county treasurer, who shall keep an account
of the receipts and disbursements thereof, for
each district separate from all other accounts,
in books prepared for the purpose, and shall
publish an annual statement thereof, for each
district, along with the annual statement
which the County Commissioners are required
by law to publish.
SEC. 143. Each of the said road commits
sioners shall receive for his services compen-
sation at the rate of two and half dollars
per day, provided, however, that no one of
them shall receive in any one year more than
fifty dollars; and the entire cost of the con-
struetion and maintenance of the roads and
bridges in any district and proportionate
share of the joint bridges between said dis
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visions of this act, including the per diem of
the road commissioners for said district, shall
be paid out of the special tax levied on and
collected in said district, and no part theraof
shall be paid by the County Commissioners
out of the levy for county purposes; the county
treasurer shall make the required payments
on vouchers certified and approved by the
road commissioners, or majority of them,
for the respective districts, and shall carefully
preserve said vouchers, and no payment shall
be made without such certifcation and
approval.
SEC. IA. Nothing in this act shall be
construed to impair or abridge the general
control over the property owned by the county,
and over county roads and bridges, now
vested by law in the County Commissioners,
except as herein specifically provided, or
their power to re survey and mark and bound
the public roads in said county, and to lay
out new roads, or the method of doing the
same; and in case of disagreement in refer
ence to the duties of said road commissioners,
or appeal from any order or decision made
by them, the County Commissioners shall be
the judges of what is right and their decision
shall be final.
SEc. 2. Ind be it enacted, That all acts
or parts of acts inconsistent with the provis-
ions of this act, except Chapter sos Of the
Laws of 1890, be, and the same are hereby
repealed, and that this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.