the county commissioners consider necessary, to protect a person's right to farm or
engage in agricultural or forestry operations.

(b) Before adopting an ordinance or regulation, or taking other action, under
subsection (a) of this section, the county commissioners shall hold a public hearing
and provide reasonable notice of the hearing.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Function paragraph of bill being cured incorrectly indicated that §
2-410, rather than § 2-409, of the Public Local Laws of Somerset County
was being added.

Occurred: Chapter 739 (House Bill 1247) of the Acts of 1998.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

Article 43C - Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority

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It is hereby declared that for the benefit of the people of the State of Maryland,
the increase of their commerce, welfare and prosperity and the improvement of their
health and living conditions, it is essential that this and future generations of youth
be given the fullest opportunity to learn and to develop their intellectual and mental
capacities; that it is essential that institutions for higher education and noncollegiate
educational institutions within the State be provided with appropriate additional
means to assist such youths in achieving the required levels of learning and
development of their intellectual and mental capacities; that it is essential that
hospitals within the State be provided with appropriate additional means to expand,
enlarge and establish hospitals and other related health care facilities; that it is
essential that institutions for higher education, noncollegiate educational
institutions, and hospitals within the State be able to finance and refinance projects
at the least cost to the users thereof; that existing facilities for education and health
care and existing financing vehicles available to the institutions concerned are
insufficient to meet these needs and such institutions are not able with present
means to construct sufficient such facilities and adequately to finance and refinance
such facilities, in order to provide such facilities at the least cost to the users thereof;
and that it is the purpose of this article to provide a measure of assistance and an
additional method to enable institutions for higher education, noncollegiate
educational institutions, and hospitals in the State to provide, and to finance and
refinance, at the least cost to the users thereof, the facilities and structures which are
needed to accomplish the purposes of this article, all to the public benefit and good to
the extent and in the manner provided herein.

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(f) (1) "Institution for higher education" shall mean an educational
institution situated within the State which by virtue of law or charter is a public or
other nonprofit educational institution empowered to provide a program of education
beyond the high school level and awards a bachelor's or advanced degree or provides