# § 17-2 Power to receive and hold property.

Published by the Baltimore City Department of Legislative Reference.

## § 17-2 Power to receive and hold property.

Balt., Md., Pub. Local Laws § 17-2 (2026)

The Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City is hereby empowered to receive any gifts, bequests, devise or conveyance of real or personal property, which may be made to it or to its Trustees, and to hold the title to said property, and from time to time convey the same by deed or otherwise, according to the nature thereof, to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, for the use of said library, so that the title thereto shall be vested in the said Mayor and City Council for Baltimore, in the like manner and for the same uses as the property mentioned in the original Act incorporating said library, passed at the January Session, 1882, Chapter 181, subject to the same management and control.