786                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 538

SHORE, IN WESTERN MARYLAND, AND IN SOUTHERN
MARYLAND.

Section 1. Now, therefore, be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That new Section 251A be and it is hereby added to
Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title
"Public Education", sub-title "University of Maryland", to follow
immediately after Section 251 thereof, and to read as follows:

251A.

The University of Maryland is directed AUTHORIZED AND
EMPOWERED to construct, maintain, equip, repair and operate
a branch for the conduct of graduate and undergraduate work
BRANCHES of the University within the geographical confines of
Baltimore County, , THE CENTRAL EASTERN SHORE AREA,
THE CENTRAL WESTERN MARYLAND AREA AND THE
SOUTHERN MARYLAND AREA OF THIS STATE.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963. 1964.

Approved April 30, 1963.

CHAPTER 538
(Senate Bill 77)

AN ACT to add a new Article 95B to the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1957 Edition), to follow immediately after Article 95A
thereof, to be known as and entitled "Uniform Commercial Code,"
to provide for the enactment of the Uniform Commercial Code,
the same relating to certain commercial transactions in, with re-
spect to or concerning personal property and fixtures, contracts,
negotiable and non-negotiable instruments, letters of credit, docu-
ments of title to goods, investment securities, lien instruments or
agreements, including, but not limited to, sales of goods, com-
mercial paper, bank deposits and collections, documentary letters
of credit, bulk transfers, warehouse receipts, bills of lading and
other documents of title to goods, investment securities, and
secured transactions, including sales of accounts, contract rights
and chattel paper, and generally relating to certain commercial
transactions in this State; providing for a public notice to third
parties in certain circumstances by the filing of certain papers
in public offices; regulating procedure, evidence and damages
in certain instances involving such transactions; and to make
uniform the law with respect thereto; repealing in the said Code,
(1957 Edition and 1962 Supplement), Article 83, Sections 19
through 96, Uniform Sales Act, Article 13, Sections 3 through
8 and 15 through 211, Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act,
Article 11, Sections 118 through 134, Bank Collection Code, Article
83, Sections 97 through 101, Bulk Sales Act, Article 14, Sections
1 through 43 and 51 through 55, Uniform Bills of Lading Act,
Article 14A, Sections 1 through 49 and 56 through 60, Uniform
Warehouse Receipts Act, Article 23, Sections 100 through 122;