§ 13-302. Established; purposes  


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  •    (a) Established. -- There is a Baltimore Metropolitan Council.

    (b) Status. -- The Council:

       (1) is a body politic and corporate; and

       (2) is not a unit of State government.

    (c) Purposes. -- The purposes of the Council are to:

       (1) serve as a forum for local officials and their representatives to identify and address problems in the region;

       (2) provide a central source of information and coordination for fashioning responses to needs in the region; and

       (3) assist local jurisdictions in developing regional policies, prioritizing regional infrastructure needs, and developing regional strategies.


HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 78D, § 2; 2008, ch. 306, § 2.