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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public health and safety, and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the members elected to
each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 23, 1971.

CHAPTER 128
(House Bill 186)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of indebtedness
as evidence thereof, to an amount not exceeding Seven Million
Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7,800,000.00), the proceeds
derived from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used
for the purpose of converting existing unmetered water services
within the boundary lines of Baltimore City to metered water
services, including but not limited to the purchase of water meters
and the installation thereof, and the doing of any and all things
necessary, proper or expedient in connection therewith; author-
izing said municipality to submit an ordinance or ordinances for
said purpose to the legal voters of Baltimore City, and providing
generally for the issuance and sale of said certificates of indebted-
ness.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That:

(a)    The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is hereby
authorized to create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of
indebtedness (hereafter called "bonds") as evidence thereof, to an
amount not exceeding Seven Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dol-
lars ($7,800,000.00), the proceeds derived from the sale thereof to
be used for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, but said debt shall
not be created and said bonds shall not be issued, in whole or in part,
unless an ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore providing for the issuance thereof shall be first submitted
to the legal voters of Baltimore City at such time and place as may
be fixed by said ordinance or ordinances and be approved by a
majority of the votes cast at such time and place, all as required by
Section 7 of Article XI of the Constitution of Maryland; and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in submitting any ordinance or
ordinances for the issuance of said bonds, or any part thereof, to
the legal voters of Baltimore City, may submit and resubmit the same
at any municipal election as well as at any general election to be
held in Baltimore City.

(b)    The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may submit, by
one ordinance, the whole of the debt authorized by this Act to the
legal voters of Baltimore City at one time, or it may, by one or more
separate ordinances, submit a part thereof to the legal voters of said
city at different times; and any ordinance or ordinances submitting
the whole or any part of such debt to the legal voters of Baltimore