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<section article="glu" article_name="Land Use" number="18-402" title_number="18" title_name="Finances" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Land Acquisition Funding">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commission may include in its annual budgets provisions for acquiring land needed for public uses in Montgomery County, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>State highways, streets and roads, and mass transit facilities, including busways and light rail facilities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>schools;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>libraries;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>parks and recreation centers; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>government buildings.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commission shall show each public use to be acquired under this subtitle on the Commission’s general or adopted plan for the physical development of the regional district.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An acquisition by the Commission under this section shall receive approval by formal resolution of the district council of Montgomery County.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A public use that is not a State highway, street, road, or mass transit facility may not be within a public construction program at the time that the Commission acquires the land.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Commission may not acquire a school site under this section without the prior approval of the Montgomery County Board of Education.</text>
  </level>
</section>
