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HOWARD COUNTY v. PEPCO

Nos. 113, 133, September Term, 1989.

319 Md. 511 (1990)

573 A.2d 821

HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND v. POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY ET AL. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND v. POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 29, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth B. Entwisle, Sr. Asst. County Sol. (Barbara M. Cook, County Sol., on brief), Ellicott City, for Howard County.

John J. Delaney (Susan M. Reutershan, Elizabeth M. Hosford, Linowes and Blocher, on brief), Silver Spring, Sandra Hall-Eckroade, Asst. Gen. Counsel to Public Service Com'n of Maryland (Bryan G. Moorhouse, Gen. Counsel, on brief), Baltimore, for Potomac Elec. Power Co.

Paul W. Davis, for amicus curiae Baltimore Gas and Elec. Co.

Roger W. Titus, Jane E. Allan, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Rockville, Dale G. Stoodley, Wilmington, Del., for amicus curiae Delmarva Power & Light Co.

Catherine M. Campbell, Hagerstown, amicus curiae for Potomac Edison Co.

Karen L. Federman-Henry, Associate County Atty. (Clyde H. Sorrell, County Atty., A. Katherine Hart, Sr. Asst. County Atty., on brief), Rockville, for Montgomery County.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and CHASANOW, JJ.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The issue in these cases is whether Maryland Code (1988 Repl.Vol.), Article 78 (entitled "Public Service Commission Law"), which grants to the Maryland Public Service Commission general regulatory powers over public service companies, including the construction of overhead transmission lines in excess of 69,000 volts, preempts by implication county zoning ordinances regulating the location and construction of such transmission lines.

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