§ 20-1-101. DESCRIBED.

(a)

Those general public lands involving the metropolitan district, as adopted by the general assembly and as contained in this article, which have been deleted by Bill No. 126, 1990, § 2, are still valid. Such laws may be located in the chapter laws of the state and must be adhered to by the county.

(b)

All additions to the county metropolitan district, as hereinbefore and hereinafter amended by legislative act of the county and with the consent and approval of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, shall be maintained in a book as described in § 20-1-102 of this title, and each amendment so approved shall have the full force and effect of law. The purpose of this subsection is to transfer such additions, whether past or future approved, from the Code to a book maintained by the Director of Public Works.

(1988 Code, § 35-126) (Bill No. 126, § 2, 9-28-1990; Bill No. 30-03, § 1, 7-1-2004)

Annotation:
  In Hajewski v. County Commissioners of Baltimore County, 184 Md. 161, 40 A.2d 316 (1944), an attempted appeal from a condemnation proceeding under this provision, was dismissed.
  The contract whereby the United States sells water and sewerage services to the Harford County Metropolitan Commission, a public corporation, "is not essentially different from the arrangement between Baltimore City and Baltimore County." Since private developers purchase only water and sewerage services from the metropolitan commission, which provides them no additional government assistance, the private developers can decline to sell housing to Negroes. It does not become a state action; the 5th and 14th amendments do not apply. Hackley v. Art. Builders, Inc., 179 F. Supp. 851 (D.Md. 1960).