Maryland County Commissioners Section 54

      The county commissioners, at their first meeting after receiving a petition and report, shall reject them if they are not in proper form in accordance with the law; they shall be referred back to the petitioners to be corrected and returned to the county commissioners at a subsequent meeting. If the petition and report are in proper form in accordance with the law, the county commissioners shall appoint a day for a public hearing upon the report and petition and shall give not less than 10 days' notice of the time and place of the hearing. This notice shall be published in a newspaper or newspapers having a general circulation in the county or counties in which the lands in the drainage association are located. During this time a copy of the report shall be on file in the office of the clerk of county commissioners, and shall be open to inspection by any landowners or other interested person, and the notices shall so state this right to inspect. A notice of this and all subsequent hearings shall be sent to the State Department of Agriculture and the State Soil Conservation Committee.