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176 CHARTERED COUNTIES OF MARYLAND. [ART. XXVA
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ARTICLE XXVA.
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CHARTERED COUNTIES OF MARYLAND.
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1. County may adopt charter under
Article XI-A of constitution;
powers, suits, prosecutions.
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2-3. Powers.
4. Effect of unconstitutional provi-
sion.
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General Provisions.
1918, ch. 456, sec. 1.
1. The inhabitants of any county adopting a charter or form of
government under the provisions of Article XIA of the Constitution of
the State by virtue of such adoption shall have perpetual succession;
may sue and be sued; may purchase or otherwise acquire and hold real,
personal and mixed property, either absolutely or in trust for any public
purpose; may dispose of the same subject to the limitations herein pro-
vided, if not contrary to the terms of any trust; may have, use and
alter at pleasure a common seal; and may pass and adopt all ordinances,
resolutions or by-laws necessary or proper to exercise the powers herein
granted.
All property and franchises of every kind belonging to or in the pos-
session of the Board of Commissioners of the County and any of its
agencies, shall, immediately upon the adoption of a charter, be vested
in the said County, as a corporation. And no action against the County
Commissioners of any County adopting the charter shall abate, but shall
be continued in the name of the County with the same effect as if orig-
inally so brought or begun; and that all subsisting liabilities, obliga-
tions, contracts, claims and demands at law or in equity, accrued or to
accrue, of said County Commissioners or in its favor, shall without
further formality be and become the liabilities, obligations, contracts,
claims and demands of such Commissioners and County Council of the
County adopting a charter under said Article XIA, and that no criminal
action, prosecution or indictment shall be affected by the adoption of a
charter as aforesaid, but shall be prosecuted .under the law in force at
the time of the commission of the offense.
Grant of Powers.
1918, ch. 456, sec. 2.
2. Whenever any county among the geographical subdivisions of this
State, as that term is defined in Section 4 of Article XIA of the Con-
stitution of the State, shall have adopted for itself a charter or form of
government under the provisions of said Article XIA of the Constitu-
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