Maryland Education Section 4-118

      (a)      Each county board may receive a donation of any:

            (1)      School land;

            (2)      School site; or

            (3)      Suitably located house adapted to school purposes.

      (b)      A county board may not improve any site or occupy any house donated under this section until it has acquired either a valid title to the property or a leasehold interest in it for a term longer than the probable useful life of the proposed improvement to the site or of the house donated.