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right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege
therein, is situate; and provided, further, that
Anne Arundel County shall retain jurisdiction
and power to tax any land so acquired by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore under the
provisions of this Act.
(b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any of said land or property, regard-
less of whether or not it is undeveloped or has
been developed, redeveloped, altered, or improved
and irrespective of the manner or means in or by
which it may have been acquired, to any private,
public or quasi public corporation, partnership,
association, person or other legal entity.
No land or property taken by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore for any of the afore-
mentioned purposes or in connection with the ex-
ercise of any of the powers which may be granted
to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore pur-
suant to this Article by exercising the power of
eminent domain, shall be taken without just com-
pensation, as agreed upon between the parties, or
awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to
the party entitled to such compensation.
All land or property needed, or taken by the
exercise of the power of eminent domain, by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for any of
the aforementioned purposes or in connection
with the exercise of any of the powers which may
be granted to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore pursuant to this Article is hereby de-
clared to be needed or taken for a public use.
SEC. 2.'" The General Assembly of Maryland
may grant to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore any and all additional power and au-
thority necessary or proper to carry into full force
and effect any and all of the specified powers
which the General Assembly is authorized to
grant to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore pursuant to this Article and to fully
accomplish any and all of the purposes and
objects contemplated by the provisions of this
Article, provided such additional power or au-
thority is not inconsistent with the terms and
provisions of this Article or with any other provi-
sion or provisions of the Constitution of Mary-
land. The General Assembly may place such oth-
er and further restrictions or limitations on the
exercise of any of the powers which it may grant
to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore un-
der the provisions of this Article as it may deem
proper and expedient.
'" Thus amended by Chapter 754, Acts of 1953, ratified No-
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SEC. 3.'" Provided, however, that no public
local law enacted under the provisions and au-
thority of this Article shall be enacted or con-
strued to authorize the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore to exercise or apply any of the pow-
ers or authority in this Article enumerated within
the territorial limits of Howard County.
ARTICLE XI-E^
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
SECTION 1. Except as provided elsewhere in
this Article, the General Assembly shall not pass
any law relating to the incorporation, organiza-
tion, government, or affairs of those municipal
corporations which are not authorized by Article
II-A of the Constitution to have a charter form
of government which will be special or local in its
terms or in its effect, but the General Assembly
shall act in relation to the incorporation, organi-
zation, government, or affairs of any such munici-
pal corporation only by general laws which shall
in their terms and in their effect apply alike to all
municipal corporations in one or more of the
classes provided for in Section 2 of this Article. It
shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
provide by law the method by which new munici-
pal corporations shall be formed.
SEC. 2. The General Assembly, by law, shall
classify all such municipal corporations by group-
ing them into not more than four classes based
on populations as determined by the most recent
census made under the authority of the United
States or the State of Maryland. No more than
one such grouping of municipal corporations into
four (or fewer) classes shall be in effect at any
time, and the enactment of any such grouping of
municipal corporations into four (or fewer) clas-
ses shall repeal any such grouping of municipal
corporations into four (or fewer) classes then in
effect. Municipal corporations shall be classified
only as provided in this section and not other-
wise.
SEC. 3. Any such municipal corporation, now
existing or hereafter created, shall have the power
and authority, (a) to amend or repeal an existing
charter or local laws relating to the incorpora-
tion, organization, government, or affairs of said
municipal corporation heretofore enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, and (b) to adopt
a new charter, and to amend or repeal any char-
ter adopted under the provisions of this Article.
'" Added by Chapter 754, Acts of 1953, ratified November 2,
1954.
"' Added by Chapter 53, Acts of 1954, ratified November 2,
1954.