HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                    1919

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Article 25 - County Commissioners

Section 8

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1981 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 25 - County Commissioners
8.

(A)  EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS SECTION,

THE [The] County Commissioners of Cecil County, in addition to,
but not in substitution of, the powers which may have been or may
hereafter be granted them, shall have the full power and
authority to acquire by lease, purchase or condemnation real or
leasehold property needed for any public purpose and to erect
buildings thereon for the benefit of the county and to sell at
public or private sale or lease any real or leasehold property
belonging to the county when in their discretion it is no longer
needed for public use, and to execute and acknowledge any and all
deeds and/or other instruments necessary to effect and complete
such lease, purchase or sale of real or leasehold property;
provided, however, notwithstanding any other provisions of this
article or any provisions of any other article of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, when the Board of County Commissioners of Cecil
County or any other Cecil County governmental board or agency,
including but not limited to the Cecil County Board of Education,
negotiates to purchase real property, it shall first acquire an
option, for a nominal consideration not to exceed one hundred
dollars ($100.00); to buy the property at any time within an
agreed period, not to exceed six months at a fixed price. Until
the option is sighed by both parties, there shall be no public
disclosure. After the option is signed by both parties, the
County Commissioners or county board or agency shall cause a
notice of the signing of the option to be published two times in
two successive weeks in one newspaper of general circulation in
the county; the notice shall specify the name of the optioner and
optionee, the length of the option, and the proposed purchase
price, and the time and place fixed by the board or agency for
hearing upon the option which shall be not less than seven, nor
more than thirty days after the last publication. At the time
fixed by the notice for hearing upon the option, any person shall
be heard on either side of the question. After the hearing, if
the board or agency feels that the exercise of the option is not
necessary or desirable, the option shall not be exercised, but if
the board or agency feels that the exercise of the option is
necessary or desirable, it shall be exercised as soon as legally
permissible.

(B)  BEFORE THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CECIL COUNTY MAY
CONTRACT TO SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER REAL PROPERTY, OR ANY

INTEREST THEREIN, OWNED BY CECIL COUNTY ON WHICH A PUBLIC LANDING