[HISTORY: Adopted and amended as indicated in text (Ch. 145,
§ 145-3, of the 1984 Code).]
[1957, ch. 395]
The Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County is hereby
authorized, directed and empowered to inspect, license, regulate and
limit as to location within the limits of Allegany County trailer
camps, junkyards, public dumps or lots on which refuse, trash or junk
is deposited or motor vehicles are dismantled or stored and, in order
to safeguard the health, safety, morals and public welfare of the
residents of Allegany County, to pass rules, regulations or resolutions
for the purpose of carrying out the powers herein granted, provided
that such rules, regulations or resolutions shall contain proper standards
for the exercise of the discretion contained herein and shall operate
uniformly. Before the County Commissioners shall proceed to enforce
any rule, regulation or resolution passed in pursuance of the provisions
of this chapter, advertisement of such rule, regulation or resolution
shall be made in some newspaper published in Allegany County once
each week for four successive weeks.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
operate, set up, establish or conduct any business or enterprise mentioned
in this chapter unless said person, firm or corporation shall first
obtain from the Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County a
license for the operation of such business or enterprise and shall
pay to the County Commissioners such sum or sums as may be fixed by
the Board for a license fee for the business or enterprise so operated
or established.
Any applicant or licensee aggrieved by any action of the County
Commissioners taken hereunder shall have the right to appeal to the
Circuit Court for Allegany County, provided that such appeal is taken
within 10 days from such action.
Any person or persons, firm or corporation which shall operate
or establish any business or enterprise mentioned in this chapter
without first having procured the license prescribed shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not
less than $25 nor more than $200 for each such violation, and each
day on which such violation continues shall be considered a separate
offense.
Nothing herein contained in this chapter shall be deemed to
authorize the County Commissioners to prohibit or regulate as to present
location any business or enterprise therein mentioned which has been
established in Allegany County prior to March 28, 1957, but said established
businesses or enterprises shall, after March 28, 1957, be maintained
and conducted in accordance with the rules and regulations established
by the County Commissioners under the authority herein granted.
