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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="8-503" title_number="8" title_name="Highways" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Federal Highway Programs">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The General Assembly of Maryland assents to the federal acts.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Administration, for itself or for any political subdivision of this State, and each political subdivision of this State may do anything necessary or desirable to comply with any term, condition, or provision and to obtain the benefits of any of the federal acts.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Administration may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Accept any federal funds available to this State under the federal acts, for the use of this State or any of its political subdivisions;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In accordance with the federal acts, allocate and apportion these federal funds to itself and to the political subdivisions of this State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Represent any political subdivision of this State for the purpose of negotiating, contracting, or dealing with the federal government as to construction and reconstruction under the federal acts;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Undertake all contracts, plans, specifications, and estimates relating to this construction and reconstruction; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Supervise directly the construction and reconstruction work done under the federal acts.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
