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Many Marylanders weren’t too keen on some of the important legislation that came out of Annapolis during this year’s session of the General Assembly. Successful bills dealing with taxes, same-sex marriage and gun control were among those that lots of residents viewed with dismay.
We hope those same folks feel as we do about two new laws that were subjects of recent News-Post stories — the Maryland Agricultural Certainty Program and the Ann Sue Metz Law.
Let’s hear it for good legislation.
The Maryland Agricultural Certainty Program is aptly named, as it will give farmers something they have often lacked in the past — long-term assurance about exactly what their responsibilities are under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Improvement Program and Total Maximum Daily Load.
The voluntary program will permit farmers to lock into their official commitments to improving water quality and reducing runoff of nutrients and sediment. The decadelong exemption from new regulations and standards will permit farmers to commit to and pursue specific initiatives for 10 years without fear of having to abandon or retool their efforts.
This bill makes sense and, moreover, it was passed with the blessing of not only the Maryland Department of Agriculture but also the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Chesapeake Bay Commission. To us that means this legislation will protect farmers from the uncertainty and expense of complying with ever-evolving clean water and runoff programs. At the same time, it will support critical efforts to improve the quality of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.Â
On another subject, Annapolis also embraced the Ann Sue Metz Law, which was inspired by the aftermath of the murder of Frederick resident Ann Sue Metz by her husband. Even though Marshall Metz was quickly arrested after killing his estranged wife, he managed to sell the family home and gain control of all his wife’s assets — from his jail cell.
Impossible as it may seem, he was able to pull this off in 2009 due to the lack of a specific, clearly stated legal prohibition that would have prevented it. Ann Sue Metz’s family is to this day trying to keep her assets from Marshall Metz, some of which he has already used to fund his criminal defense.
The Ann Sue Metz Law provides specificity on this matter, and once it becomes effective Oct. 1 it will prevent killers from benefiting from the estates of their victims. Amen to that.
Finally, Delegate Kelly Schulz, R-District 4A, sponsored the Metz legislation, and Colby Ferguson, Frederick County agriculture development specialist, was instrumental in crafting the bill that established the agricultural certainty program.
They deserve thanks for their contributions to these two eminently sensible pieces of legislation.
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The fact that cbf supports this legislation means nothing to those of us who understand they are nothing but a shill for this gov and his continuim of tax increases while they turn a deaf ear to the the fact that the proposed incinerator will heavily pollute the Potomac and Chesapeake ....when a rep from cbf came to Frederick about two years ago to shill for rainwater runoff and doubling of flush taxes he initially declared he knew nothing about the incinerator and its negative affects...400,000 gallons of toxic water daily into those bodies of water and he "knew nothing" ...sounds familiar doesn't it, he later afdmitted privately he did know about it but the "Foundation" has to pick its fights......and certainly they didn't wish to buck mom who took a hefty contribution from incinerator operator Covanta and then declared burning garbage and tires to be Tier One Green...what a sick joke!
There's no denying that the Ann Sue Metz Law is good legislation, but when I read up on the law I discovered that Maryland was the 47th state to enact this sort of legislation. So there were 46 other states with this law on their books, but the Maryland legislature didn't consider such a law before a murdering opportunistic scoundrel demonstrated the need for it. If the Maryland legislature had been more forward-thinking they could have saved the Metz family a lot of heartbreak, aggrevation - and their estate.
ho ho FNP agrees,no more murders by gun,its a new law against murdering.Oh another one.You bet.
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