Maryland Statutes
Subtitle 3 - Express Powers of Charter Counties and Code Counties
Section 10-319 - Highways, Bridges, and Streets

(a)    A county may provide for:
        (1)    building, maintaining, and repairing any street, road, lane, alley, footway, bridge, culvert, highway, or public place that is condemned, ceded, opened, widened, extended, or straightened as public property; and
        (2)    the assessment of the costs of any work done in accordance with item (1) of this subsection on the assessable basis of the county.
    (b)    A county may provide:
        (1)    that the owner or possessor of any lot shall grade, regrade, pave, repave, or repair the footways in front of the lot; and
        (2)    for the enforcement of item (1) of this subsection by fine or penalty.
    (c)    A county may regulate the opening of street surfaces.

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