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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="13-308" title_number="13" title_name="Land Patents" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Application and Issuance of Warrant; Valuation of Land">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On receipt of the surveyor’s acknowledgement of the warrant, the Commissioner shall mail a notice of the issuance of the warrant to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The applicant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Each adjoining landowner named in the application under § 13-302(a)(4) of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Each person, governmental body, or agency named in the application under § 13-302(a)(6) of this subtitle as having a claim to any portion of the land described in the application;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The Division of State Documents; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The Board of Public Works.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The notice shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The information required by § 13-302(a)(4) of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The date, time, and place for making the survey, as specified by the surveyor under § 13-307(b)(2) of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Immediately on receipt of the notice, the Administrator of the Division of State Documents shall publish the notice in the next available two consecutive issues of the Maryland Register. The Commissioner shall place in the file of the applicant copies of the notice published in the Maryland Register and the dates of publication.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Immediately on receipt of the notice, the applicant shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Have the notice published at least once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in each county in which any portion of the land described in the warrant is located; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Request the sheriff of each county in which any portion of the land described in the warrant is located to post the information contained in the notice conspicuously on the land.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The sheriff of each county promptly shall comply with a request made under this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The applicant promptly shall file with the Commissioner a certificate of publication and a certificate of the sheriff evidencing the date of posting.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
