Section 10-319 - Highways, bridges, and streets(a) A county may provide for: (1) building, maintaining, and repairing any street, road, lane, alley, footway, bridge, culvert, highway, or public place that is condemned, ceded, opened, widened, extended, or straightened as public property; and(2) the assessment of the costs of any work done in accordance with item (1) of this subsection on the assessable basis of the county.(b) A county may provide: (1) that the owner or possessor of any lot shall grade, regrade, pave, repave, or repair the footways in front of the lot; and(2) for the enforcement of item (1) of this subsection by fine or penalty.(c) A county may regulate the opening of street surfaces.Revised and recodified by 2013 Md. Laws, Ch. 119,Sec. 2, eff. 10/1/2013.