# Housing and Community Development (GHS)

## Title 12. Provisions of Statewide Applicability

### Subtitle 3. Commissioners

#### Section 12-305

(a)

  (1) The chief elected official shall choose as chair a commissioner who is appointed when the authority is first activated.

  (2) When the office of the chair becomes vacant thereafter, the authority shall choose a chair from among its commissioners.

(b) An authority shall choose a vice chair from among its commissioners.

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Md. Code Ann., Hous. & Cmty. Dev. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)