# Housing and Community Development (GHS)

## Title 12. Provisions of Statewide Applicability

### Subtitle 3. Commissioners

#### Section 12-309

(a) Each commissioner, the executive director, and each employee of an authority is:

  (1) a local official for the purposes of Title 5, Subtitle 8, Part II of the General Provisions Article and subject to local ethics laws; and

  (2) an employee of a local government for the purposes of Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article and entitled to the protections of the Local Government Tort Claims Act.

(b) A commissioner of an authority is not liable for a statement made or action taken in good faith in the exercise or performance of a power or duty of the commissioner.

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