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<section number="19-126.03" name="Program requirements and location of monitoring systems" law="code" slug="sec-19-126.03" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_19PO_DIV2AVENOABMOSY_S19-126.03PRRELOMOSY">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The County must deploy and utilize no more than three (3) noise abatement monitoring systems within the County to enforce motor vehicle noise requirements under Section 22-602 of the Transportation Article of the Maryland Annotated Code, as amended.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The County may not deploy or utilize a noise abatement monitoring system within the County for any purpose other than to enforce motor vehicle noise requirements of Section 22-612 of the Transportation Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before activating a noise abatement monitoring system, the Department must:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>publish notice of the location of the noise abatement monitoring system On the County website; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>ensure that each noise abatement monitoring system is proximate to sign that</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>indicates that noise abatement monitoring systems are in use in the area; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>is in accordance with the manual and the specifications for a uniform system of traffic control devices adopted by the State Highway Administration under Section 25-104 of the Transportation Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland Code, as amended.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If the Department moves or places a noise abatement monitoring system to or at a location where a noise abatement monitoring system had not previously been moved or placed, the Department must not issue a citation for a violation recorded by that noise abatement monitoring system:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>until signage is installed in accordance; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for at least the first fifteen (15) calendar days after the signage is installed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
