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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="1-1406" title_number="1" title_name="Definitions; General Provisions" subtitle_number="14">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An authority may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>acquire real property or rights or interests in real property, directly or through a person or governmental entity, by gift, devise, transfer, exchange, foreclosure, purchase, or otherwise on terms and conditions and in a manner the authority considers proper;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>own property in the authority’s name, including tax foreclosed property and property without clear title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>sell, lease as lessor, transfer, and dispose of the authority’s interest in property;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>procure insurance against loss in connection with the property, assets, or activities of the authority; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>execute deeds, mortgages, contracts, leases, purchases, or other agreements regarding the property of the authority.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Property purchased, owned, or sold under this section may not be located outside the jurisdiction of the local government in which the authority is located.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An authority may  quiet title or foreclose on a property in which it holds an interest that is not fee simple title by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>conducting an examination of title to determine the identity of any person possessing a claim or interest in the property; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>filing a complaint to quiet title in accordance with Title 14, Subtitle 6 of the Real Property Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An authority may join in a single complaint to quiet title or foreclose on one or more parcels of real property.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
