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Article 78A - Public Works
Section 15

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1980 Replacement Volume)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 78A - Public Works

15.

(A) Any real or personal property of the State of
Maryland or of any board, commission, department or agency
thereof, and any legal or equitable rights, interests,
privileges or easements in, to, or over the same, may be
sold, leased, transferred, exchanged, granted or otherwise
disposed of to any person, firm, corporation, or to the
United States, or any agency thereof, or to any board,
commission, department or other agency of the State of
Maryland for a consideration adequate in the opinion of the
Board of Public Works, or to any county or municipality in
the State subject to such conditions as the Board of Public
Works may impose. If said real or personal property of the
State of Maryland, disposed of hereunder, or any legal or
equitable rights, interests, privileges or easements in, to,
or over the same is under the jurisdiction or control of any
board, commission, department or other agency of the State,
the deed, lease or other evidence of conveyance of any such
property or right or interest therein, disposed of
hereunder, shall be executed on behalf of such board,
commission, department or agency of the State, by the
highest official thereof, and by the Board of Public Works,
and if any of said real or personal property of any legal or
equitable rights, interests, privileges or easements in, to,
or over the same, disposed of hereunder, is not under the
jurisdiction or control of any particular board, commission,
department or other agency of the State, the deed, lease or
other evidence of conveyance of said property or interest
therein shall be executed by the Board of Public Works only;
provided, however, that whenever any State department,
agency or commission leases State-owned property under its
jurisdiction and control to any State employee, agent,
servant or other individual in State service for purposes of
permitting such person to maintain a residence therein, such
lease shall be executed by the department, agency or
commission having such control or jurisdiction over such
property, and, additionally, shall be approved by the Budget
Director, which approval shall be a condition precedent to
the validity of the lease; and provided further that any
conveyance of ground rent redemption deeds, release or
reassignment of mortgages, satisfactions or reassignment of