The Department of Transportation must:
(a) furnish information and make recommendations to the Planning Board regarding the feasibility of implementing transportation aspects of master plans;
(b) coordinate and cooperate with other bodies and agencies regarding transportation;
(c) develop programs to implement transportation elements of the County general plan and area master plans;
(d) control, supervise, engineer, design, construct, operate, and maintain roads, streets, highways, bridges, culverts, storm drainage systems, pedestrian and bicycle pathways and walkways, and related facilities benefitting the County, including services relating to street cleaning, trees, plantings, and leaf collection;
(e) perform all public transit engineering and operational functions, including:
(4) commuter rail service;
(6) airparks, landing fields, and related functions; and
(7) transportation demand management programs;
(f) review and approve transportation elements of development plans, including storm drainage and paving plans; grade establishment plans; utility plans; pre-preliminary, preliminary and site plans; and construction permits for any work in public space;
(g) acquire and dispose of real property used (or intended to be used) for roads, streets, highways, bridges, culverts, storm drainage systems, and related facilities; and
(h) operate and maintain public parking facilities under
Chapter 60; enforce parking regulations; manage the parking enterprise fund under
Chapter 60, and remodel, restore, and renovate public parking facilities under
Chapter 60 that will remain open during the work. (1996 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1; , § 1; , § 1; , § 1.)
Editor's note—1996 L.M.C., ch, 4, §§ 3—5 of 1996 L.M.C., ch. 4, state:
Sec. 3. Any responsibility or right granted by law, ordinance, regulation, contract, or other document to the Department of Transportation or to the Department of Facilities and Services is transferred to the Department of Public Works and Transportation.
Sec. 4. Any regulation in effect on the effective date of this Act that implements a function transferred to the Department of Public Works and Transportation Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulations to the Department of Transportation or to the Department of Facilities and Services must be treated as referring to the Department of Public Works and Transportation. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect the rights of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.
Sec. 5. All duties and authority involving solid waste assigned by the County's Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan to the Department of Environmental Protection and to the Director of that Department are reassigned to the Department of Public Works and Transportation and to the Director of the Department of Public Works and Transportation, respectively. Any reference in that Plan to the Department of Environmental Protection and to the Director of that Department must be treated as referring to the Department of Public Works and Transportation and to the Director of the Department of Public Works and Transportation, respectively."
