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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved April 30, 1974.

CHAPTER 514
(House Bill 1224)
AN ACT concerning

Military Department — Armories

FOR the purpose of eliminating the requirement that the
price for the sale of an armory be determined by
negotiation between the parties based on two
independent appraisals of the armory, and clarifying
language.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 65 - Militia

Section 61

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 61 of Article 65 - Militia, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and
1973 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 65 - Militia
61.

The Military Department, with the prior approval of
the Board of Public works, is [authorized and empowered
to] MAY sell from time to time the armories that are
superfluous to its requirements. The county or
municipal corporation [wherein] IN WHICH any such armory
is located shall have first right of refusal to purchase
[said] THE armory [, with the price to be determined by
negotiation between the parties based on two independent
appraisals of the property in question]. The proceeds of
[such] THE sale shall be placed in the Annuity Bond Fund.
[Should] IF the county or municipal corporation [decline]