Wicomico County, MD
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2023-07-06
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Division 2 Municipal Charters
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Chapter WC Willards Charter
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Article I The Municipal Corporation
- Division 1 The County Charter
- Ch C County Charter
- Division 2 Municipal Charters
- Ch DC Delmar Charter
- Ch FC Fruitland Charter
- Ch HC Hebron Charter
- Ch MC Mardela Springs Charter
- Ch PC Pittsville Charter
- Ch SC Salisbury Charter
- Ch SHC Sharptown Charter
- Ch WC Willards Charter
- Ch WC Art I The Municipal Corporation
- § WC-1 The Town of Willards.
- § WC-2 A description of corporate boundaries.
- § WC-3 Records of corporate boundaries.
- Division 3 The Code
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Aviation
- Ch 7 Board of Appeals
- Ch 9 Bridges
- Ch 13 County Internal Auditor
- Ch 14 (Reserved)
- Ch 15 Emergency Management
- Ch 18 Compensation and Allowance Commission
- Ch 19 Contracts and Purchasing
- Ch 20 Correction, Department of
- Ch 22 County Property
- Ch 27 Deeds
- Ch 29 Finance
- Ch 30 Clean Energy Loan Program
- Ch 31 Election Districts
- Ch 33 Elections
- Ch 36 Environment, Commission on
- Ch 37 Ethics Law
- Ch 39 Fire and Ambulance Companies and Rescue Squads
- Ch 41 Fire Protection
- Ch 44 Housing Authority
- Ch 46 Law Enforcement Review Board
- Ch 47 Library System
- Ch 56 (Reserved)
- Ch 59 Personnel Rules
- Ch 62 Planning and Zoning Commission
- Ch 64 Planning Organization, Areawide
- Ch 66 (Reserved)
- Ch 68 Pocomoke River
- Ch 70 Recreation, Parks and Tourism
- Ch 72 Register of Wills
- Ch 74 (Reserved)
- Ch 77 Roads and Improvements
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 83 Seal
- Ch 86 Sheriff
- Ch 87 Special Benefit Districts
- Ch 88 Substance Abuse Policy
- Ch 90 Tax Exemptions
- Ch 94 (Reserved)
- Ch 97 Urban Service Districts
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 104 Agricultural Land Preservation
- Ch 105 Alarms
- Ch 106 (Reserved)
- Ch 110 Assemblies, Mass Public
- Ch 117 Building Construction
- Ch 119 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch 125 Critical Area Resource Protection
- Ch 126 Forest Conservation
- Ch 130 (Reserved)
- Ch 133 Animal Control
- Ch 135 Drugs and Tobacco Products
- Ch 138 Electrical Standards
- Ch 140 Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 141 Fees
- Ch 144 Fire Prevention
- Ch 146 Fires
- Ch 148 Flood Hazard Areas
- Ch 149 Floodplain Management
- Ch 151 Fortune-Telling
- Ch 153 Foxes
- Ch 156 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 158 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 160 Housing Standards
- Ch 169 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 170 Motels and Places of Amusements
- Ch 174 Nuisances
- Ch 179 Parks, Recreational Facilities and Areas
- Ch 180 Peddlers
- Ch 183 Plumbing
- Ch 186 Right to Farm
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 195 (Reserved)
- Ch 196 Stormwater Management
- Ch 197 Streets and Addressing System
- Ch 200 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 203 Taxation
- Ch 205 Taxicabs
- Ch 211 Trailer Camps
- Ch 213 Transient Merchants
- Ch 216 Trespass
- Ch 218 Vagrants
- Ch 221 Violations and Penalties
- Ch 225 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A228 Acts Appearing as Footnotes in 1965 Code
- Ch A229 Acts Not Elsewhere Referred to
- Ch A230 Comparative Table of Sections
- Ch A231 Derivation Table
- Ch A232 Disposition Lists
- Ch A233 Rules of Legislative Procedure
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Editor's Note: This also superseded the former
Willards Charter, adopted and amended by P.L.L., 1930, Art. 23, secs.
403 through 409 and 413 through 418; 1959 Code, secs. 545 through
553 and 557 through 562; 1927, ch. 278, secs. 1 through 7, and 11
through 16; 1949, ch. 120, secs. 404, 404A and 404B; Res. April 12,
1965, secs. 549 through 551 and 553 through 592.
The inhabitants of Willards within the provisions
of this Article within the corporate limits legally established from
time to time are hereby constituted and/or continued a body politic,
by the name of "The Town of Willards," with all the privileges of
a body corporate, by that name to sue and be sued, to plead and be
impleaded in any court of law or equity, to have and use a common
seal and to have perpetual succession, unless the Charter and the
corporate existence are legally abrogated.
The corporate boundaries of the Town of Willards
shall be a circle with a radius of two thousand six hundred forty
(2,640) feet from a center point located at the intersection of the
south right-of-way line of Regnault Avenue with the west right-of-way
line to Canal Street; said center point having a west longitude of
75 degrees; 20 minutes, 55.95 seconds and a north latitude of 38 degrees,
23 minutes, 28.69 seconds.
The courses and distances showing the exact
corporate limits of the town shall be filed at all times with the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Wicomico County, the Commissioner of
the Land Office and the Director of the Department of Legislative
Reference. In addition, a copy of the courses and distances describing
the corporate boundaries shall be on file in the office of the Town
Clerk. All such descriptions of corporate boundaries shall be recorded
and filed in a suitable book or place, properly indexed and reasonably
available for public inspection during normal business hours.
