PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF MARYLAND

To be submitted to the voters for ratification or rejection
at the General Election to be held in November 1962.

CHAPTER 329
(Senate Bill 334)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 40A of Article
III of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, title
"Legislative Department", changing the procedure for
the immediate taking of property under certain circum-
stances in Baltimore City , AND PROVIDING FOR THE
CONTINUATION OF THE PRESENT PROCEDURE
FOR TAKING OF PROPERTY FOR A CERTAIN
PERIOD, and providing for the submission of the amend-
ment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for
adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, (three-fifths of all the members of each of the
two houses concurring), That the following amendment be
and the same is hereby proposed to Section 40A of Article
III of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, the same,
if adopted by the legal and qualified voters of the State, as
herewith provided, to become Section 40A of Article III of
the Constitution of the State of Maryland.

40A. The General Assembly shall enact no law authoriz-
ing private property to be taken for public use without just
compensation, to be agreed upon between the parties, or
awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation, but where such property is
situated in Baltimore City and is desired by this State or by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the General
Assembly may provide [for the appointment of appraisers
by a Court of Record to value such property, and that, upon
payment of the amount of such valuation to the party
entitled to compensation, or into Court and securing the
payment of any further sum that may be awarded by a jury,
such property may be taken.] that such property may be
taken immediately upon payment therefor to the owner or
owners thereof by the State or by the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, or into court, such amount as the State or
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as the case may
br, shall estimate to be the fair value of said property, pro-
vided such legislation also requires the payment of any fur-
ther sum that may subsequently be added by a jury; AND
FURTHER PROVIDED THAT THE AUTHORITY AND