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§ 30.23 IMPROVEMENTS.
   The Board of County Commissioners may carry out, maintain and operate the following works of improvement:
   (A)   Soil conservation;
   (B)   Water conservation;
   (C)   Flood prevention, including structural and land treatment measures;
   (D)   Conservation, development, utilization and disposal of water, including development for recreation and protection of wildlife.
(1986 Code, § 20-16) (1963, Ch. 262)
§ 30.24 WOMEN’S COMMISSION.
   (A)   The County Commissioners may establish by ordinance or resolution a Garrett County Women’s Commission.
   (B)   The County Commissioners may take any additional action concerning the administration and operation of the Women’s Commission that the County Commissioners consider appropriate.
   (C)   The County Commissioners may provide county funding to the Women’s Commission, subject to any terms or restrictions that the County Commissioners consider appropriate.
(1986 Code, § 20-16.1) (1994, Ch. 100; 1996, Ch. 57)
§ 30.25 FINANCING PURCHASE OF REAL PROPERTY.
   (A)   Subject to divisions (B) through (E) of this section, the County Commissioners by resolution may:
      (1)   Enter into an agreement to finance the purchase of real property purchased by the county for any public purpose through a financial institution or with a person selling the property at an interest rate and under terms and conditions that the County Commissioners deem in the best interest of the county; and
      (2)   Enter into an agreement to finance the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, or capital equipping of any building for any public purpose through a financial institutional at an interest rate and under the terms and conditions that the County Commissioners deem in the best interest of the county; and
      (3)   Secure the financing under divisions (1) or (2) above through a mortgage or other instrument under terms that the County Commissioners deem appropriate.
   (B)   (1)   The total amount of county debt entered under this section may not exceed $1,500,000 at any point in time.
      (2)   A financing agreement entered under this section may not extend beyond a 20-year period and shall reserve to the county the right to prepay the debt at any time at the option of the County Commissioners without any penalty.
   (C)   In any fiscal year in which debt under this section is outstanding, the County Commissioners shall levy ad valorem taxes on the assessable property in the county at a rate and amount sufficient to provide for the payment of the principal and interest under any financing agreement entered under this section as it becomes due.
   (D)   Before the County Commissioners adopt a resolution under this section:
      (1)   The County Commissioners shall compare the cost of the financing based on documented proposals from at least 2 financial institutions; and
      (2)   The proposed financing agreement and any related documents shall be reviewed by the attorney for the County Commissioners for legal sufficiency.
   (E)   The County Commissioners may adopt a resolution under this section only at a regular session of the County Commissioners held no sooner than 10 days after notice of the proposed financing and the time at which the County Commissioners are to consider the financing is published in at least one newspaper regularly available in the county.
(1986 Code, § 20-16.2) (1997, Ch. 24; Am. by Md. S.B. 702, passed 3-17-1998)
§ 30.26 SALE OF PROPERTY.
   The County Commissioners may sell property located in any industrial park owned by the County Commissioners to any buyer, for the appraised or negotiated price, and in any manner. The County Commissioners may use proceeds from these sales in accordance with the county budget.
(1986 Code, § 20-20) (1985, Ch. 333)
§ 30.27 HOUSE BILL AMENDMENTS.
   (A)   House Bill 219. Be in enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, that the laws of Maryland read as follows:
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   (H)   Notwithstanding subsection (A) of this section, in Garrett County, the Board of County Commissioners may dispose of surplus supplies, equipment, or other personal property belonging to the county by the following means:
      (1)   Public action;
      (2)   Public sale;
      (3)   Trade-in for new or used equipment;
      (4)   Recycling; or
      (5)   Disposal in the Garrett County Landfill.
(Md. H.B. 219, passed 2-25-2003; Md. H.B. 146, passed 2-13-2007)
   (B)   House Bill 277. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, that the laws of Maryland read as follows:
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   (H)   (1)   Notwithstanding subsection (A) of this section, in Garrett County, if at a public sale of any surplus real property the public sale fails to yield any bids for that property, the County Commissioners:
         (I)   Shall record in their minutes that no bids were made; and
         (II)   May privately negotiate and sell the surplus property for a reasonable price if the Commissioners announce the making of the privately negotiated agreement at the first meeting following the agreement.
      (2)   The Commissioners shall adopt regulations to implement this section.
(Md. H.B. 277, passed 2-25-2003)
   (C)   House Bill 324. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, that the laws of Maryland read as follows:
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   (RR)   (1)   In this subsection, “government organization” includes:
            (I)   A county;
            (II)   A Board of Education;
            (III)   A municipal corporation;
            (IV)   A government cooperative purchasing organization.
      (2)    The County Commissioners of Garrett County may purchase goods and services through a contract that has been entered into by a vendor and a government organization that does not participate in a cooperative purchasing agreement in which Garrett County is a member.
(Md. H.B. 324, passed 2-25-2003)
   (D)   House Bill 201. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, that the laws of Maryland read as follows:
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      (a)   This section applies only to commission counties and, unless otherwise provided by a local law enacted by a code county, code counties.
      (b)   (1)   In case any office of county commissioner shall become vacant in any county by death, resignation or otherwise, the Governor, if such vacancy shall occur during the session of the Senate, shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint, and if such vacancy shall occur during the recess of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint a proper person or proper persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies; and the nomination of the person or persons thus appointed during such recess, or of some other person in his or their place, shall be made to the Senate within thirty days after the next meeting of the legislature.
         (2)   (i)   Subject to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph the Governor shall nominate or appoint the person to fill such vacancy whose name shall be submitted to the Governor in writing by the central committee of the political party with which the county commissioner, so vacating, has been affiliated in the particular county, provided that the nominee or appointee shall be of the same political party as the person whose office is to be filled; and it shall be the duty of the Governor to make the nomination or appointment within fifteen days after the submission of the name of the nominee or appointee to the Governor.
            (ii)   In Garrett County, the nominee or appointee shall be a resident of the same commissioner district in which the former county commissioner resided.
         (3)   In the event there is no central committee in the county in which the vacancy occurs, the Governor shall appoint to fill the vacancy a person who has all the qualifications required for the office of county commissioner in the particular county.
(Md. H.B. 201, passed 3-22-2011)
ROAD BOARD
§ 30.45 COMMISSIONERS AUTHORIZED TO SIT AS ROAD BOARD; DISPOSITION OF STATE-ALLOCATED FUNDS.
   (A)   The County Commissioners are authorized and empowered to control and regulate the public roads and bridges in the county, subject to the provisions of Md. Code, Art. 89B.They shall sit as a Road Board once in each month, and oftener if deemed by them necessary to the public interest, for the consideration and determination of matters relating to county roads and bridges, and at such meetings, each County Commissioner shall inform the Board of conditions affecting roads and bridges in the county so far as the same have come to his or her knowledge. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to make careful inspection of the roads and road work in Garrett County according to rules to be adopted by the Board.
   (B)   It is further provided that any and all funds allocated to the Road Board by the State Highway Administration, as provided in Md. Code, Art. 89B above, shall be paid over to the Garrett County Supervisor of Tax Collection for deposit in a special bank account until such time as needed by the Board.
(1986 Code, § 20-17) (1957 Code, § 68; 1945, Ch. 1031; 1951, Ch. 663; 1957, Ch. 258, § 84A; 1962, 1st Spec. Sess., Ch. 2; 1966, Ch. 70; 1970, Ch. 227, § 68)
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