TALBOT COUNTY v. SKIPPER

No. 164 September Term, 1990.

329 Md. 481 (1993)

620 A.2d 880

TALBOT COUNTY, MARYLAND v. WILBURT SKIPPER ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 10, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Slay, Jr. (Suzanne L. Hood, Henry & Price, all on brief), Easton, for petitioner.

M. Albert Figinski and Michael P. Smith (Weinberg and Green, Baltimore, Walter M. Baker, Elkton, all on brief), for respondents.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

We shall hold in this case that Maryland Code (1982, 1987 Repl.Vol., 1992 Cum.Supp.), Title 9, Subtitle 2, Part III, of the Environment Article (entitled "Sewage Sludge"), preempts a Talbot County ordinance which requires a land owner to record certain information in the county land records before applying sewage sludge to his land in accordance with a state permit.

The State of Maryland has regulated the utilization of sewage sludge for many...

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