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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="26-508" title_number="26" title_name="Public Drainage Associations" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Board of Viewers">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The county commissioners or county council shall examine a report submitted by a board of viewers under § 26–507 of this subtitle at the first meeting after receiving the report.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the county commissioners or county council find that a report under § 26–507 of this subtitle is not in proper form or not in compliance with the law, the report shall be returned to the board of viewers to be corrected and resubmitted.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the county commissioners or county council find that a report under § 26–507 of this subtitle is in proper form and in compliance with the law, the county commissioners or county council shall set a date for a public hearing on the report.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least 30 days before a hearing under this section, the county commissioners or county council shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>publish notice of the time and place of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in each county in which the land affected is located; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>mail a notice to each person named in the report.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notice of the hearing shall state that a copy of the report is available for inspection in an office of the designated officer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A copy of the report of the board of viewers shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>available for inspection in an office of the designated officer; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>sent to the Secretary of Agriculture and the State Soil Conservation Committee in the Department of Agriculture.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
