# Transportation (GTR)

## Title 8. Highways

### Subtitle 3. Acquisition and Disposition of Property

#### Section 8-315

(a) Even if not needed for highway purposes, property along controlled access highways may be acquired under this subtitle if:

  (1) The property is cut off from suitable access to a public highway because of the construction or reconstruction of any controlled access highway; or

  (2) The property is needed to provide a right-of-way or entrance to a public highway from any property that has been denied access to a public highway because of the construction or reconstruction of a controlled access highway.

(b) Property may be acquired under this subtitle for a highway beautification project as specified in Subtitles 7 and 8 of this title, by the means and for the purposes specified in those subtitles.

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Md. Code Ann., Transp. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)