In this Part 2, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BOARD
The County Roads Board.
There is a County Roads Board.
The Board consists of the members of the Board of County Commissioners.
A. 
Meetings The Board shall meet as often as the Board considers necessary to perform its duties.[1]
[1]
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Former Subsection B, Compensation, and former Subsection C, Expenses, which immediately followed this subsection, were repealed 2-11-2014 by Ord.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.
A. 
In general. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County shall employ the personnel that the Board considers necessary to carry out this Part 2.
B. 
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.
A. 
In general. The Board may adopt and enforce:
(1) 
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
(2) 
Regulations governing the use of sanitary landfills and rubble landfills, including access roads.
B. 
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.
A. 
Marking roads. The Board may mark for direction and distance all County roads under its supervision.
B. 
Signs and signals. The Board may erect and maintain along the rights-of-way of the County roads the necessary signs, signals, and markers:
(1) 
To direct the traveling public;
(2) 
To warn the traveling public of danger; and
(3) 
For any other purpose that the Board considers necessary.
C. 
Bridges: weight and speed regulation.
(1) 
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.
(2) 
The Board may regulate the weight and speed by conspicuously posting and maintaining signs at both ends of or the entrance to the bridge or culvert.
(3) 
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.
D. 
Miscellaneous powers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter or any other law, the Board may:
(1) 
Adopt regulations necessary to carry out this chapter;
(2) 
Make contracts;
(3) 
Negotiate with employees;
(4) 
Purchase, lease, rent, and use all necessary buildings, land, and equipment; and
(5) 
Under advice from the Department, adopt a Design and Construction Standards Manual.
A. 
With respect to roads under the Board's jurisdiction, the Board may:
(1) 
Regulate the standing and parking of vehicles;
(2) 
Regulate traffic by means of peace officers or traffic control devices;
(3) 
Regulate or prohibit processions or assemblages on County roads;
(4) 
Designate particular County roads as one-way roads and require that all vehicles on the roads move in one direction;
(5) 
Designate any intersection as a stop intersection and require that all vehicles stop at one or more entrances to the intersection; and
(6) 
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.
B. 
Traffic control devices. All traffic control devices erected under this chapter shall conform to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, December 2000 Edition.
A. 
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.
B. 
Maintenance of records. The Executive Assistant employed by the County Commissioners shall continuously maintain the records required in Subsection A of this section.