Editor’s Note: Former Subsection B, Compensation, and
former Subsection C, Expenses, which immediately followed this subsection,
were repealed 2-11-2014 by Ord. No. 13-25.
Compensation. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's
County shall fix the amount of compensation for the personnel and
the manner of paying the compensation.
Regulations and orders that the Board considers necessary
for the preservation of County roads, including regulations governing
the use of County roads by traction engines, wagons, sleds, and other
vehicles or conveyances that produce more than the ordinary amount
of wear and tear on the County roads; and
Procedure for adoption. When a regulation or order
is promulgated or altered, the Board shall publish the regulation
or order once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general
circulation in the County.
The Board may regulate the weight and rate of speed
of wagons, trucks, road engines, road rollers, traction engines, threshing
machines, and other vehicles of any kind passing over any bridge or
culvert in the County road system in accordance with this subsection.
Posting of a sign under this subsection shall mean
that a vehicle subject to this subsection that weighs, with or without
any load, more than the number of pounds specified on the sign may
not pass or be drawn, driven, propelled, or in any other manner taken
over the bridge or culvert at a greater rate of speed than specified
on the sign.
Place and maintain traffic control devices to regulate,
warn, or guide traffic as the Board considers necessary to carry out
local traffic ordinances and Titles 11 through 27 of the Transportation
Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland.
Traffic control devices. All traffic control devices
erected under this chapter shall conform to the Manual on Uniform
Traffic Control Devices, December 2000 Edition.
Records relating to closing of public roads. The County
Commissioners shall copy and record in a well-bound book, provided
by them for the purpose, all papers and proceedings in their office
relating to the closing of public roads and public landings in the
County.
Maintenance of records. The Executive Assistant employed by the County Commissioners shall continuously maintain the records required in Subsection A of this section.