[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of
Worcester County 8-25-1981 by Bill No. 81-5 as Title 2 of the General Provisions Article
of the 1981 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
(a)
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
CODE
CODE OF PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS
CODE OF PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS OF WORCESTER COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
COUNTY
MAY
As used in this Code, unless otherwise clearly indicated by the context,
the following terms and words shall be defined as follows:
The County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland.
The Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland.
The Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland.
The Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland.
The County Commissioners of Worcester County, Maryland.
Worcester County, Maryland.
Is permissive and not mandatory.
(b)
Other definitions. Where individual Articles,
Titles, Subtitles or other divisions of the Code have a specific set
of definitions, those definitions shall govern over the definitions
set forth in this section as used in such Article, Title, Subtitle
or other division.
(c)
Nonexclusivity. These definitions are not
intended to be exclusive, and where other terms are used to clearly
indicate terms listed in the aforegoing definitions, such other terms
shall be construed by the clearer meaning.
The adoption of this Code, with the exception of the matters
controlled by the Zoning and Subdivision Control Article and the Roads
and Streets Title of the Public Works Article hereof, shall not affect
or impair any right vested or acquired and existing at the time of
its adoption, nor shall it impair, discharge or release any existing
contract, obligation, duty or liability of any kind whatsoever. All
pending suits, actions and prosecutions for crimes or misdemeanors,
including all civil and criminal proceedings whatsoever, shall be
prosecuted and proceeded with to final determination and judgment
entered therein as if this Code had not been adopted.
If any crime, misdemeanor or other violation of law has been
committed and no prosecution or other proceeding has been commenced
against the offender before the adoption of this Code, then such offender
may be proceeded against by indictment or otherwise and punished in
the same manner as if this Code had not been adopted.
The repeal or the repeal and reenactment or the revision, amendment
or consolidation of any statute or of any section or part of a section
of any statute, civil or criminal, shall not have the effect to release,
extinguish, alter, modify or change, in whole or in part, any penalty,
forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have
been incurred under such statute, section or part thereof, unless
the repealing, repealing and reenacting, revising, amendment or consolidating
act shall expressly so provide; and such statute, section or part
thereof so repealed, repealed and reenacted, revised, amended or consolidated
shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose
of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings or prosecutions,
civil or criminal, for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture
or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment,
decree or other which can or may be rendered, entered or made in such
actions, suits, proceedings or prosecutions imposing, inflicting or
declaring such penalty, forfeiture or liability.
The masculine includes all genders, except where such construction
would be absurd or unreasonable.
The singular always includes the plural and vice versa, except
where such construction would be unreasonable.
The word "person" shall include "corporation," unless such a
construction would be unreasonable.
(a)
References. Whenever a provision of any Public
General or Public Local Law of this state refers to any portion of
this Code or to any other law, the reference applies to any subsequent
amendment to that portion of the Code or other law, unless the referring
provision expressly provides otherwise.
(b)
Rule of construction. The rule of construction
established by this section applies to an amendment to a statute whether
adopted prior or subsequent to February 1, 1977.
The provisions of all statutes enacted, reenacted, amended or
recodified after February 1, 1977, are severable unless the statute
specifically provides that its provisions are not severable. The finding
by a court that some provision of a statute is unconstitutional and
void does not affect the validity of the remaining portions of that
statute, unless the court finds that the remaining valid provisions
alone are incomplete and incapable of being executed in accordance
with the legislative intent.
