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<section number="28-251" name="Background, scope, and purpose" law="code" slug="sec-28-251" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_28CIMOFIPE_DIV3MICIVI_SD1GE_S28-251BASCPU">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In enacting this Division the Council has considered the following:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Article 25A, Section 5(A), Annotated Code of Maryland, empowers this County to enforce its ordinances, resolutions, bylaws, and regulations adopted under the authority of Article 25A by civil fines and penalties.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The District Court has jurisdiction under Section 4-401, Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, Annotated Code of Maryland, to adjudicate a violation of the County Code which is subject to civil penalty.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This Division pertains to civil violations of the Prince George's County Code which are subject to civil fines and penalties, but this Division shall not be applicable where a specific procedure for levy and adjudication of a civil fine or penalty for a violation has been enacted in other Divisions of this Subtitle, or where a criminal penalty has been established.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The purpose of this Division is to promulgate procedures for the imposition of civil fines and penalties and for the adjudication thereof by the District Court of the State of Maryland.</text>
  </level>
</section>
