glhs837
Power with Control
on his own. Screw the Commissioners you elected to represent you. Since I think he's getting the feel he's not getting the nod from them, he's decided he don't need no stinking Commissioners, he's doing it live. Second quote makes it sound like there's no competitive process, he's already chosen the same vendor we use for school bus violation cameras. Can the sheriff just commit the county to financial dealings on this scale?
http://somd.com/news/headlines/2016/20127.php
Now I know SB 277 that authorizes speed cameras requires that any locality pass a local law that authorizes their use.
http://www.marylandroads.com/OOTS/sb0277t.pdf
But I can't seem to find the SB authorizing statewide use of RLCs.
http://somd.com/news/headlines/2016/20127.php
any opposition some of them might have to the idea may not matter as Sheriff Timothy K. Cameron said the ultimate authority about whether they become a reality is between his agency and the State Highway Administration
Cameron told The County Times that as the cameras were installed the vendor would simply collect a greater share of the fines until the cameras began to pay for themselves. Once that occurred the county would then split the collection of fines evenly, he said.
Even if there was a cost, Cameron said, his agency could probably afford to pay for the cameras since it usually returns nearly $2 million in unused funds to the county each year.
Now I know SB 277 that authorizes speed cameras requires that any locality pass a local law that authorizes their use.
http://www.marylandroads.com/OOTS/sb0277t.pdf
FOR the purpose of expanding to all counties and municipalities in the State the authority to use certain speed monitoring systems to enforce certain highway
speed laws under certain standards and procedures; altering the speed of a motor vehicle at which a speed monitoring system will produce a recorded
image of the vehicle; prohibiting the use of a speed monitoring system in a local jurisdiction unless authorized by the governing body by ordinance or resolution
adopted after reasonable notice and a public hearing;
But I can't seem to find the SB authorizing statewide use of RLCs.