PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 14

Error: Incorrect cross-reference and missing conjunction in Article 25, §
254(d)(9).

Occurred: Ch. 438, Acts of 1971 and Ch. 770, Acts of 1982.
Article 25A - Chartered Counties of Maryland

1.

(A) The inhabitants of any county adopting a charter or form of government under
the provisions of Article XI-A of the Constitution of the State by virtue of such adoption
shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued; may purchase or otherwise acquire
and hold real, personal and mixed property, either absolutely or in trust for any public
purpose; may dispose of the same subject to the limitations herein provided, if not
contrary to the terms of any trust; may have, use and alter at pleasure a common seal; and
may pass and adopt all ordinances, resolutions or bylaws necessary or proper to exercise
the powers herein granted.

(B) All property and franchises of every kind belonging to or in the possession of
the board of commissioners of the county and any of its agencies, shall, immediately upon
the adoption of a charter, be vested in the said county, as a corporation. And no action
against the county commissioners of any county adopting the charter shall abate, but shall
be continued in the name of the county with the same effect as if originally so brought or
begun; and all subsisting liabilities, obligations, contracts, claims and demands at law or in
equity, accrued or to accrue, of said county commissioners or in its favor, shall without
further formality be and become the liabilities, obligations, contracts, claims and demands
of such commissioners and county council of the county adopting a charter under said
Article XI-A, and no criminal action, prosecution or indictment shall be affected by the
adoption of a charter as aforesaid, but shall be prosecuted under the law in force at the
time of the commission of the offense.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Stylistic error in Article 25A, § 1.

Occurred: Annotated Code of Maryland, 1957.

1A.

(f) A chartered county may require or provide, with regard to a construction
contract to which it is a party, that if there is a dispute regarding the terms of the contract
or performance under the contract, the question or questions involved in the dispute shall
be subject to a determination which is final and conclusive on all parties, made either by:

(1) A neutral person or entity selected by or in accordance with a procedure
established by the highest executive authority of a chartered [county,] COUNTY; or

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Incorrect punctuation in Article 25A, § lA(f)(l).

Occurred: Ch. 539, Acts of 1984.

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