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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 568

artificial lights to check on livestock or poultry or in
routine farm procedures. However, raccoons or opossum may
be hunted on foot at nighttime daring open season with the
use of a dog and light.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 569

(House Bill 619)

AN ACT concerning

Somerset County — Sale of Public Property

FOR the purpose of permitting in Somerset County the County
Commissioners to sell certain public property under
certain conditions without advertising the property for
sale; and restructuring.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 25 — County Commissioners

Section 11A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1973 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 25 — County Commissioners

11A.

(A) (1) The county commissioners of every county fin
the State] may [acquire]:

(I)   ACQUIRE by purchase, gift,      devise,
bequest, condemnation, or otherwise, any property,      or any
interest therein, of any kind needed for any public    purpose,
[and to erect]

(II)   ERECT buildings thereon for the
benefit of the county, and [to sell]

(III)   SELL at public sale any property
when no longer needed for public use[, but no property],