ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 414

Approved May 11, 2004.

CHAPTER 414
(House Bill 1351)

AN ACT concerning

Mental Hygiene Administration Department of Health and Mental Hygiene -

State Facilities - Cemeteries

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the State from selling a cemetery owned by the State
and on the grounds of a State facility if the State facility is downsized,
consolidated, closed, or sold; requiring the State to maintain and to mark with a
certain monument a cemetery owned by the State; prohibiting the transfer or
sale of certain easements or rights of entry; providing that a cemetery or an
easement or right of entry to a cemetery owned by the State and located on the
grounds of a State facility may be sold under certain circumstances; defining a
certain term; and generally relating to State-owned cemeteries located on the
grounds of State facilities.

BY adding to

Article—Health—General

Section 10 209

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - State Finance and Procurement

Section 10-309

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2001 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

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

Article—Health—General

10-209.

Article - State Finance and Procurement

10-309.

(A) IN THIS SECTION, "STATE FACILITY" MEANS:

(1) A FACILITY MAINTAINED BY THE MENTAL HYGIENE
ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE AND
LISTED IN § 10-406 OF THE HEALTH - GENERAL ARTICLE; OR

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