§ 3-9-301. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY.

(a)

Authorized.

(1)

The county may acquire property for any of the purposes of Article 18 of the Code by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, exchange, or condemnation.

(2)

The county shall exercise the right to acquire property by condemnation, including property necessary for opening, closing, widening, or straightening highways, exclusively in accordance with Title 12 of the Real Property Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

(3)

The power of condemnation conferred in this section does not extend to include any property dedicated as a cemetery.

(b)

Bed of highways.

(1)

For the purpose of altering, relocating, or straightening public or private highways, the county may acquire, by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, exchange, or condemnation, land or other property in the bed of any highways and adjacent to a highway on either or both sides of the highway.

(2)

After a highway has been altered, relocated, or straightened, the county may sell any land or other property acquired under this subsection, except lands lying in the bed of a highway, for the prices, at the times, and on the terms that the county considers advisable in the best interest of the county.

(1988 Code, § 31-1) (Bill No. 3, 1990, § 2, 3-30-1990; Bill No. 196-95, § 1, 12-10-1995; Bill No. 66-01, § 4, 7-1-2004; Bill No. 70-03, § 46, 7-1-2004)

Annotations:
  See Alan Company v. Gerding, 209 Md. 71, 120 A.2d 354 (1956). Applied in Inter-City Land Company v. Baltimore County, 218 Md. 80, 145 A.2d 266 (1958).
 Cited in Cohen v. Baltimore County, 229 Md. 519, 185 A.2d 185 (1962).