WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                     Ch. 97

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Somerset County Commissioners
to sell or otherwise transfer certain land, together with a
certain right, to the Somerset County Developmental Center,
Inc.

BY adding to

The Public Local Laws of Somerset County

Section 2-406

Article 20 - Public Local Laws of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ (H. B. 925)

(81r0568) of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1988)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 20 - Somerset County

2-406.

THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, BY DEED OR OTHERWISE, MAY TRANSFER
LAND, TOGETHER WITH A RIGHT OF INGRESS AND EGRESS, OF PROPERTY
LOCATED IN THE BRINKLEY'S ELECTION DISTRICT, NOT TO EXCEED 2
ACRES, THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAY TRANSFER UP TO 2 ACRES OF
LAND LOCATED IN THE BRINKLEY'S ELECTION DISTRICT, AND MAY GRANT A
RIGHT OF INGRESS AND EGRESS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LAND TO THE
SOMERSET COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER, INC.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1988.

Approved April 12, 1988.

CHAPTER 97

(House Bill 944)

AN ACT concerning

Health Care Malpractice Claims - Waiver of Arbitration -

Retroactive Effect

FOR the purpose of providing for retroactive effect of certain
provisions of law relating to waiver of arbitration
proceedings under the Health Care Malpractice Claims Act
regardless of when the claim arose; providing for the
construction and application of this Act; making this Act an

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