HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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appropriate to effectuate the policies of this subtitle.
Both the plaintiff and defendant in the action shall have
the same rights of appeal as are provided by law in other
injunction proceedings.

8-703.

A public agency may not authorize or make any payments
to a person under a contract containing a provision required
by § 8-702 of this subtitle unless the public agency is
satisfied that the person has fully complied with the
provision. Payments made to a person by a public agency
which should not have been made as a result of this section
shall be recoverable to the full extent of the contract by
the Attorney General directly from the person who did not
comply with § 8-702 upon a suit filed in the circuit court
of the county [or Baltimore City court] with law and equity
jurisdiction in which the contract was executed or
performed.

Article 23 - Miscellaneous Companies

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It shall be lawful for any railroad company
incorporated under the laws of this State, to lease its
railroad and franchise for the operation thereof to any
other railroad company incorporated under the laws of this
or of any other state of the United States whose railroad,
within or without this State, shall, either directly or by
means of intervening line, connect with the railroad so to
be leased to said company, and thus forming a continuous
route or routes for the transportation of persons and
property[, and it shall also be lawful for any]. ANY
railroad company incorporated under the laws of this State
[to] MAY become the lessee of the railroad and the
franchises for its operation of any other railroad company
incorporated under the laws of this or of any other state of
the United States whose railroad, within or without this
State, shall, either directly or by means of intervening
line, connect with the railroad of the lessee company, and
thus forming a continuous route or routes for the
transportation of persons and property[; provided, however,
that nothing in this]. THIS section [shall] DOES NOT
authorize any company incorporated under the laws of this
State to lease its railroad to any railroad company whose
railroad within this State competes with the railroad of the
lessor company, nor shall any railroad company incorporated
under the laws of this State become the lessee of any
railroad which competes in this State with the railroad of
the lessor company[; and provided further, that the]. THE
agreement of lease [shall] MAY not contain any provisions in
conflict with the provisions of this article of the Code, or
which will exempt [said] THE railroad, so far as it lies
within this State, from the operation of the laws of this