§ 18-3-301. AUTHORITY OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.

(a)

In general. The Director of Public Works may establish and amend the general plan of streets, avenues, and highways.

(b)

Procedure.

(1)

The Director may establish a general plan of laying out and locating streets, alleys, and highways in the county, and recommend the plan to the county.

(2)

If the plan is approved, a sanitary sewer, stormwater drain, or water pipes may not be installed in any avenue, street, alley, road, way, or elsewhere in the county unless the proposed installation, including the character of material to be used and especially the size of sanitary sewer pipes, stormwater drain pipes, and water pipes shall have been first approved in writing by the Director of Public Works.

(c)

Clerk of the court. The clerk of the circuit court for the county shall refuse to accept for record any plat attempting to lay out property for development in the county that has not been approved by the Director of Public Works as indicated by endorsement on the plat, to the end and intent that the Director of Public Works shall be able effectively to control the general plan of streets, avenues, and highways as hereinbefore provided.

(d)

Penalty. A person who opens, grades, paves, or establishes any avenue, street, alley, road, or way within the limits of the county without having first obtained the approval in writing of the Director of Public Works and any person who installs in any avenue, street, alley, road, way, or elsewhere in the county any sanitary sewer, stormwater drain, or water pipes, without having first obtained the approval in writing of the Director of Public Works, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(1988 Code, § 31-46) (Bill No. 3, § 2, 3-30-1990; Bill No. 66-01, § 2, 7-1-2004)

Annotations:
  Construed in Alan Company v. Gerding, 209 Md. 71, 120, A.2d 354 (1956)
  Cited in Commissioners of Baltimore County v. Oxford Company, 209 Md. 373, 121 A.2d 239 (1956)