State v. Greenberg

The State appeals from an order granting motions to dismiss and to quash warrants charging the appellees with maintaining a junk yard in Prince George’s County without having obtained a permit therefor from the county commissioners, in violation of Code (1957), Art. 27, sec. 469. The trial court held the statute, applicable now in some ten counties, to be unconstitutional. The State’s right to appeal is conceded.

The statute provides: “It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, either to maintain or permit to be maintained outside of any incorporated municipality a junk yard, a…