Maryland County Commissioners Section 9
§ 9.
(a) This section applies only in Dorchester County.
(b) The County Commissioners, in addition to, but not in substitution of, the powers which may have been or may hereafter be granted them, may acquire by lease, purchase, or condemnation, real or leasehold property needed for any public purpose, may erect buildings on the property for the benefit of the county, may sell at public sale any real or leasehold property belonging to the county when in their discretion it is no longer needed for public use, and may execute and acknowledge any and all deeds and other instruments necessary to effect and complete the lease, purchase, or sale of real or leasehold property.
(c) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the County Commissioners may sell real or leasehold property without public sale to any municipality or other governmental agency within Dorchester County upon terms and conditions and for consideration, if any, which they consider proper, when in their discretion the property is no longer needed for public use by the county, and may execute and acknowledge any and all deeds and other instruments necessary to effect and complete the sale of the real or leasehold property.
(2) The County Commissioners may not sell or lease the riparian rights adjacent to any real or leasehold property that belongs to Dorchester County and is located in the City of Cambridge unless the County Commissioners provide for the public sale or lease under a process that includes the following elements:
(i) A public advertisement, in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county, soliciting sealed bids or proposals;
(ii) The public opening of sealed bids or proposals;
(iii) The rejection of unresponsive or unacceptable bids or proposals; and
(iv) The selection of the bidder or offeror who offers the terms most favorable to the county.
(3) The County Commissioners may take any and all actions necessary to effectuate and complete the process of competitive bidding under paragraph (2) of this subsection.
(d) The County Commissioners may lease real or leasehold property belonging to the county, in lieu of sale, to nonprofit organizations upon terms and conditions they deem proper, when in their discretion the real or leasehold property is no longer needed for public use, and to execute and acknowledge any instruments necessary to effect and complete the lease of the property.
(e) The County Commissioners may sell real or leasehold property or any reversionary interest in that property without a public sale to any volunteer fire company located in the county for use in providing fire, emergency, and supporting services or facilities, upon the terms and conditions and for whatever consideration, if any, which they consider proper when in their discretion the property is no longer needed for public use by the county, and may execute and acknowledge any and all deeds and other instruments necessary to effect and complete the sale of real or leasehold property.
(f) (1) The County Commissioners may sell to the Dorchester County Family YMCA, Inc. all of the County Commissioners' right, title, and interest in and to that certain parcel of real property located at 201 Talbot Avenue, Cambridge, Maryland, and more particularly described in paragraph (2) of this subsection, upon the terms and conditions and for whatever consideration, if any, which they consider proper when in their discretion the property is no longer needed for public use by the county, and may execute and acknowledge any and all deeds and other instruments necessary to effect and complete the sale of the property.
(2) The description of 201 Talbot Avenue is as follows:
Beginning for the same at the northeast corner of Talbot Avenue and Tubman Street and from thence running and binding with Talbot Avenue North 41 degrees 45 minutes East, 646 feet to School Street, and from thence running and binding with School Street, North 48 degrees 15 minutes West, 400 feet to Somerset Avenue and from thence running and binding with Somerset Avenue, South 41 degrees 45 minutes West, 646 feet to Tubman Street and from thence running and binding with Tubman Street, South 48 degrees 15 minutes East, 400 feet to the place of beginning; the said tract or parcel of land, being the same land that is designated as Lots Nos. 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 on a plat of "Glasgow Estate", made by J. Watson Thompson Surveyor, and now on file among the Plat Records in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, Maryland.
