Section 13-302 - Established; purposes.

§ 13-302. Established; purposes.
 

(a)  Established.- There is a Baltimore Metropolitan Council. 

(b)  Status.- The Council: 

(1) is a body politic and corporate; and 

(2) is not a unit of State government. 

(c)  Purposes.- The purposes of the Council are to: 

(1) serve as a forum for local officials and their representatives to identify and address problems in the region; 

(2) provide a central source of information and coordination for fashioning responses to needs in the region; and 

(3) assist local jurisdictions in developing regional policies, prioritizing regional infrastructure needs, and developing regional strategies. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 78D, § 2; 2008, ch. 306, § 2.]