ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 334

(c)     "Commission" means the Hall of Records Commission.

(d)     "Commissioner" means the State Archivist who, while performing the
duties and exercising the powers provided in this title, is known as the
"Commissioner of Land Patents".

(e)     "Expense" includes any charge, cost, deposit, fee, or tax incurred in
connection with a land patent proceeding.

(f)      "Governmental body" includes any unit of State government, any county or
municipal corporation, or any agency or instrumentality of any county or municipal
corporation.

(g)     (1) "Land" means any area of land in the State, including any two or
more areas of land with a common boundary for at least part of their perimeters.

(2)     "Land" includes vacant land AND ABANDONED LAND.

(3)     "Land" does not include any area covered by navigable water unless
it was included in a patent issued before March 3, 1862.

(h) "Mail" means to deposit in the United States mails, postage prepaid,
endorsed "Restricted Delivery — Return Receipt Requested".

(i) "Patent" means:

(1)     Any grant confirmed by Article 5 of the Declaration of Rights of the
State Constitution;

(2)     Any valid grant made under prior law by the State of its interests in
any vacant, resurveyed, escheat, or confiscated land; or

(3)     Any grant made under this title by the State of its interest in any
land.

(j) "Public use" means use by or for the benefit of the public.

(k) "Survey", whether used as a noun or as a verb in any form or tense, means:

(1)     The act of surveying any vacant land in order to obtain a patent for
the land; or

(2)     The act of resurveying any land for which a patent previously was
issued in order to obtain a new patent for the land.

(1) "Surveyor" means any professional land surveyor or property line surveyor
licensed under the Maryland Professional Land Surveyors Act.

(m) "UNPOSSESSED VACANT ABANDONED LAND" MEANS VACANT LAND THAT
HAS BOUNDARIES THAT ARE LOCATED WITHIN OR CONTIGUOUS TO A GREEN RIDGE
STATE FOREST OR PARK FOR WHICH A PATENT MAY HAVE BEEN ISSUED BUT WHICH:

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