Ch. 51

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(VI) THE DEPARTMENT MAY NOT OFFER FOR SALE AT
ANY POINT IN TIME MORE THAN A TOTAL OF 3,000 ACRES OF LAND IN
GARRETT COUNTY.

[5-1507.

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Code, after June
30, 1986, the Department may not use any funds, whether under the
Heritage Conservation Fund, Program Open Space, or otherwise, to
acquire land in Garrett County. This section does not prohibit
the Department from using any funds to exchange land in Garrett
County, as long as the total acreage does not exceed that amount
owned by the Department on June 30, 1986.]

Chapter 403 of the Acts of 1969, as amended by
Chapter 848 of the Acts of 1986

[11T.

The Department of Natural Resources may not use Program Open
Space funds to acquire land in Garrett County in excess of the
total amount of land owned by the Department in that county on
June 1, 1983. This section does not prohibit the Department from
exchanging land, as long as the total acreage does not exceed
that amount owned by the Department on June 1, 1983.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, it shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 14, 1987.

CHAPTER 51

(Senate Bill 1054)

AN ACT concerning

Department of Transportation - Legal Counsel

FOR the purpose of altering a provision relating to the
employment of legal advisors or counsel by units of the
Department of Transportation.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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