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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 16-1 Record of conveyances and contracts.">
  <section prefix="§" num="16-1" heading="Record of conveyances and contracts.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Comptroller to maintain publicly accessible online database.">The Comptroller shall maintain a publicly accessible online database that includes:<para num="(1)">all deeds and leases made to the City, or sufficient extracts from those deeds and leases to fully identity the nature of the City’s interest in the specific property; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">all contracts and agreements made in relation to the property of the City.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Searchable index.">The database required by this section shall be searchable for easy reference to the deeds, leases, contracts, and agreements within the database.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 1, §57</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 1, §64</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 1, §85</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 1, §24</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 1, §92</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 1, §95</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1858-009</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-032</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">This section was amended by Ordinance 21-032, effective January 10, 2022, to require that the record of all property conveyances to the City and of all contracts and agreements made in relation to City property be maintained in a publicly accessible online database (rather than, as has long been the practice, in a “well-bound record book”).</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
