The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-09-08
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| shall desire to improve any road to an extent
beyond that contemplated by the Board Of Road
/ Commissioners of the district where located.
| they may make application to the County Com
| missioners, by petition, setting forth the loca-
character Of the Improvement. and the probable
/ cost thereof, and the said Commissioners ghall
| thereupon order the Road Commissioners OF the
district, or districts, and the Baltimore County
Roads Engineer to meet upon the premises and
| examine the location and purposes set forth in
| the petition, and If they shall judge that the
| public interest will be promoted thereby, they
| shall report their determination to the County
| Commissioners, setting forth an estimate of the
termination, and If the County Commissioners
| shall approve the report OF the said Road Com
the expenditure of an amount not exceeding
| five hundred dollars per mle TO be paid out of
the general road and bridge fund, provided the
pay into the treasury of the county an amount
not less than equal that appropriated by the
County Commissioners, all of said money to be
expended under the direction of the Road Com
SEC. 202. Whenever any owner of property
in Baltimore county shall have opened, laid out
venience and is willing to dedicate the same to
recorded, the County Commissioners are au-
thorized to accept the same. If in their opinion,
use, and upon such acceptance the said avenue
or road so dedicated shall be kept in good order
and repair by the Road Commissioners of the
district in which 1t may be situated; provided.
however, that previous to such acceptance said
road shall not be less than thirty feet in width,
and duly and properly graded in the judgment
SEC. 2O3 Whenever any road shall have been
IN use for twenty years, though the. same may
highway. the County Commissioners, If they
deem public necessity requires the adoption OF
the same as such, shall declare the said road to
be public highway. with full power to relocate
and straighten the same, in their discretion, and
shall publish notice to that effect once O week
Tor two successive weeks, in one or more news
papers published in Baltimore county; pro-
vided. said road shall not be less than thirty feet
IN width. and such road so declared to be pub
lie highway, shall be kept in good order and re-
pair by the Road Commissioners of the district
in which such road is situated, as other public
SEC. 204. Whenever any doubt exists as to the
proper location or width of road, the Road
Commissioners of the district, under the direc-
tlOn OF tne county commissioners, may cause
the same to be surveyed. and make such altera-
tiOns as the public convenience may require,
subject as to the rights of any person of the
of new roads.
SEC. sO5. All applications for opening altering
ty Commissioners.
Sec. 2O6. Whenever any taxable inhabitant or
inhaoitants OF Baltimore county intend to Pc
Jlt1on the commissioners for opening, altering
or closing any road. he shall give thirty days
notice thereof in one or more of the newspapers
puDlisneo IN baltimore county, setting forth as
near as may be the length and location of said
road.
SEC 2O7. Counter petitions may be presented
fifteen days after the expiration of the thirty
days notice. provided for in Section 2O6 of this
Act ana tb when any counter petitions are 50 pre-
a day when the petition and counter petitions
shall be heard, and shall consider the same and
such other testimony as may come before them,
and determine the case as in their opinion shall
seem right and proper.
SEC. sOs. Whenever the County Commissioners
shall decide that 1t is expedient that a road be
opened as provided in the preceding section,
that they may contract with the owner or own
ers of the land through which the road is in
tended to run for the right of way necessary
for said road If he, she or they be competent to
contract; and in case the said County Commis-
sioners shall so contract, they shall cause plat
of the said road to be made by the Baltimore
County Roads Engineer and filed and recorded
IN the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court
referred to In and shall be part OF said deed or
deeds. and the lands SO conveyed shall be and
BECOME thenceforth the property of the county
in the same manner and to the same extent as
other county roads, and no further, subject to
the public right of way over the same; and it
shall be lawful for the said County Commits
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Commissioners shall deem it expedient that ex-
grounds for the purpose of opening, altering or
closing a road, they shall appoint three persons
as Examiners, who shall be freeholders % in the the
through which the road is proposed to be opened.
altered or closed; but the appointment of ex-
amlucTS Shall uOb pr6Veub bu6 SdlQ OOuuCy OOtu-
missioners at any time thereafter from con-
tracing with the owner or owners as above pro-
vided, and the County Commissioners of said
cannot be conveniently drained by drains along
the said county roads, to make the same upon
the property outside the limits thereof, and they
shall contract for the land that may be required
for that purpose as above provided or they
may proceed to condemn the lands that may be
visions Of Sections 248 to 253 both inclusive.
Article g. title Corporations" and any amend
SEC. zoo. The Examiners before they proceed
to act as such, shall take an oath to execute the
trust reposed in them faithfully and without
favcr. affection or partiality, which oath shall
returned Herewith.
SEC. 2lO. Said Examiners, or a majority of
them, shall give notice of the time and place of
meeting by publishing the same once week
for two successive weeks in some newspaper
or newspapers published in Baltimore county,
and by causing copy of the same to be de-
livered to every owner through or along whose
property the proposed road will pass, or be pub
canndt be found. at least Ave days before the
day of meeting, and in case the owner be an in
faint or 0a pe e w the OF
of said infant, or with the committee or person
having charge of the person alleged to be non
cOmp0s ment's, and, at the time appointed. the
Examiners, or majority of them, shall meet
on the premises and proceed to examine and de-
termine whether the public convenience re,
or closed as the case may be; but they shall
have power to adjourn from time to time.
SEC. 211. If the application be for opening,
closing or altering road, and if the said ex-
aminer shall determine that the public conven-
fence requires that the road should be opened,
closed or altered, they shall proceed to locate
the same In such manner as will, in their judg-
ment, best promote the public convenience.
and shall cause plat OF the same ana m aso OF OF
close a road. to be made out under the direction
of the Baltimore County Roads Engineer, and
port of their proceedings, under their hands, to
the County Commissioners, with the reaeon on
SEC. siS. If the said Examiners shall be of the
opinion that the road ought not to be opened,
altered or shut up, they shall report their opin-
the reason on which it was founded.
SEC. 2l3. Whenever any road shall be located
ana SGrveyed as Psec sfSn tne e 9Hara 3S cos Of
of making said road. and also of the damages, IL
any, to be paid, and shall assess the damages
and benefits caused thereby upon the persons
interested, and the districts, respectively, In
such proportions as they may deem just and
proper. AID shall cause notice to be given to al
by publication in one or more newspapers OF
sTs %eeE and st f ag mae be
filed with the County Commissioners within
thirty days from the first publication OF said
sioners report of such assessment; and If any
person or body corporate or district acting
through its Road Commissioners shall feel ag-
grieved by the award, report or proceeding of
said Board of Examiners, he, she or it, within
thirty days after said report is filed in the Office
of the County Commissioners. shall file his, her
or its objection in writing, and the County Com
missioners, after five days notice to each side
interested, or as soon thereafter practicable,
| shall proceed to consider the award. return of
| report, plat and proceedings of said Examiners,
| and all the proceedings in said case, and they
may modify and confirm. reject, reverse. alter,
| amend or correct the award, return the report,
plat and proceedings In said case, or may in their
| discretion send back to said Examiners the
award, return of report, plat and proceedings
| for alterations, corrections or amendments OF
| any person interested in said proceedings may
| lection of the County Commissioners of said
| county to the Circuit Court for said county |;
from the passage or said final order of ratidca-