Section 8-1002 - Powers and duties of Department. - Maryland Statutes

§ 8-1002. Powers and duties of Department.
 

The Department shall: 

(1) Develop and implement a program to educate the public on every phase of shore and bank erosion, its causes and effects, the locations where erosion is a problem, and steps to be taken to control erosion; 

(2) Review petitions for formation of shore erosion control districts presented to any county and report to the county as provided in Article 25, § 167B of the Code; 

(3) Provide technical assistance to individual property owners, municipalities, and counties having specific shore and bank erosion problems; 

(4) Design or cause to be designed shore erosion control projects, including vegetative cover, in shore erosion control districts; 

(5) Enter into agreements with any person to construct shore erosion control projects; 

(6) Administer the Fund to provide loans to any person in support of construction of shore erosion control projects; 

(7) Supervise or provide supervision of design and erection of any shore protective device the Fund finances in whole or part; 

(8) Prepare requests for appropriation of funds necessary to maintain the Fund; 

(9) Cooperate with the following units: 

(i) The State Highway Administration for shore erosion control where essential to protect municipal, county, or State roads; 

(ii) The United States Army Corps of Engineers to conduct shore erosion studies; and 

(iii) The Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture to evaluate and apply vegetative measures for shore erosion control; 

(10) Design, construct, and maintain shore erosion control works on State-owned lands if these projects are included in the budget for the Fund; 

(11) Actively seek to obtain available funds from the federal government for shore erosion control projects; and 

(12) Adopt regulations to implement this subtitle. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 66C, §§ 756, 758A; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 4, § 1; 1990, ch. 6, § 2; 1998, ch. 208.]