Ch. 256                                    2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

3.       AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND CONTRIBUTION TO
THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY; AND

4.       ANY OTHER UNIQUE COUNTY CONSIDERATIONS THAT
SUPPORT THE GOALS OF THE PROGRAM.

(3)     (4) In making its recommendation, the county agricultural
preservation advisory board shall:

(i) Take into consideration criteria and standards established by
the Foundation under this subtitle, current local regulations, local patterns of land
development, the kinds of pressures to develop the subject land, State smart growth
goals, and any locally established priorities for the preservation of agricultural land;
and

(ii) Recommend for ranking any application that qualifies and
meets the priorities established by the county governing body for the preservation of
agricultural land.

(4)     (5) The county agricultural preservation advisory board shall
provide a public hearing concerning any application to sell if such a hearing is
requested by a majority of the county agricultural preservation advisory board, or by
a majority of the county governing body, or by the applicant.

(5) (6) The board of trustees of the Foundation shall not approve any
application to sell which has not been approved by the governing body of the county
containing the subject land.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2003.

Approved May 13, 2003.

CHAPTER 256
(Senate Bill 569)

AN ACT concerning

Civil Damages - State Compensation for Erroneous Conviction and

Imprisonment - Evidentiary Standard and Eligibility

Financial and Other Appropriate Counseling

FOR the purpose of requiring the Board of Public Works to grant certain economic
damages and authorizing the Board to grant certain noneconomic damages to
certain individuals who are erroneously convicted, sentenced, and confined
under a State law for crimes the individuals did not commit; authorizing the
Board of Public Works to provide certain counseling; requiring that the
eligibility of certain individuals for a certain grant be based on certain pardons
by the Governor under certain circumstances or based on a court's

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