Section 12-201 - Sovereign immunity defense barred. - Maryland Statutes

§ 12-201. Sovereign immunity defense barred.
 

(a)  In general.- Except as otherwise expressly provided by a law of the State, the State, its officers, and its units may not raise the defense of sovereign immunity in a contract action, in a court of the State, based on a written contract that an official or employee executed for the State or 1 of its units while the official or employee was acting within the scope of the authority of the official or employee. 

(b)  Exclusions.- In an action under this subtitle, the State and its officers and units shall have the immunity from liability described under § 5-522(d) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 21, §§ 7-101, 7-102; 1984, ch. 284, § 1; 1986, ch. 265; 1990, ch. 546, § 3; 1997, ch. 14, § 20.]