# Housing and Community Development (GHS)

## Title 16. Montgomery County

### Subtitle 1. Definitions; Organization and Administration of Montgomery Commission

#### Section 16-105

(a) The Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County, formerly the Housing Authority of Montgomery County, is a public body corporate and politic that:

  (1) exercises public and essential governmental functions; and

  (2) has all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this Division II.

(b) A committee of the Commission is a public body for the purposes of the Open Meetings Act.

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