shall serve for such term and shall receive such compensa-
tion as the General Assembly may provide in said public
local law..

(b) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, when
created, shall have power and authority to acquire land in
slums and blighted areas in Baltimore City by purchase,
lease or condemnation, and to reconvey any such land by
sale or lease for redevelopment, in accordance with a rede-
velopment plan for Baltimore City, provided that such re-
development plan has first been approved by the Commis-
sion on City Plan of Baltimore City; and provided further
that no such slum or blighted area to be acquired shall be
less than eight acres or more than eighty acres. The term
"slum" shall mean any area where dwellings predominate,
which by reason of depreciation, overcrowding, faulty ar-
rangement or design, lack of ventilation, light or sanitary
facilities, or any combination of these factors, are detri-
mental to the public safety, health or morals. The term
"blighted area" shall mean an area in which a majority of
the buildings have declined in productivity by reason of
obsolescence, depreciation or other causes to an extent they
no longer justify fundamental repairs and adequate main-
tenance..

(c) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall
have authority to use the power of eminent domain to ac-
quire any land needed for any redevelopment project within
the corporate limits of the City of Baltimore. Property al-
ready devoted to a public use may be acquired by the Balti-
more Redevelopment Commission; provided, however, that
no real property belonging to the State of Maryland or the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or of the Baltimore
Housing Authority may be acquired without the consent
of said State or of said City or of said Baltimore Housing
Authority, as the case may be. No property taken by the
Baltimore Redevelopment Commission, by exercise of the
Power of eminent domain, shall be taken without just com-
pensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded
by a Jury. 1.

(d) The Baltimore Redevelopment Commission shall
have power to petition the United States of America for
loans of money and to receive from the United States of
America such loans to be used in the acquisition of land in
slums and blighted areas for redevelopment and for use in
the preparation of any redevelopment plan..

1 Thus amended by Act of 1945, Chapter 659, and ratified at November elec-
tion, 1946..