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when expressly granted as hereinbefore provided, are
hereby transferred to the voters of each County and the
voters of City of Baltimore, respectively, provided that
said powers so transferred shall be exercised only by the
adoption or amendment of a charter as hereinbefore
provided; and provided further that this Article shall
not be construed to authorize the exercise of any pow-
ers in excess of those conferred by the Legislature upon
said Counties or City as this Article sets forth.

SEC. 7. The word "Petition" as used in this Article,
means one or more sheets written or printed, or partly
written and partly printed; "Signature" means the sig-
nature of a registered voter written by himself in his
own handwriting (and not by his mark), together with
the ward or district and precinct in which he is regis-
tered. The authenticity of such signatures and the fact
that the persons so signing are registered voters shall be
evidenced by the affidavit of one or more registered vot-
ers of the City or County in which said voters so sign-
ing are registered, and one affidavit may apply to or
cover any number of signatures to such petition. The
false signing of any name, or the signing of any ficti-
tious name to said petition shall be forgery, and the
making of any false affidavit in connection with said pe-
tition shall be perjury.

ARTICLE XI-B¹⁶⁵

CITY OF BALTIMORE—LAND
DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT.

SECTION I.¹⁶⁶ The General Assembly of Mary.
land, by public local law, may authorize and empower
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore:

(a) To acquire, within the boundary lines of Balti-
more City, land and property of every kind, and any
right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein,
by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation or any other le-
gal means, for development or redevelopment, includ-
ing, but not limited to, the comprehensive renovation or
rehabilitation thereof; and

(b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dis-
pose of any of said land or property, regardless of
whether or not it has been developed, redeveloped, al-
tered 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 aforementioned pur-
poses 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 by exer-
cising the power of eminent domain, shall be taken
without just compensation, as agreed upon between the
parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid or ten-
dered to the party entitled to such compensation.

Article XI-A

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 aforemen-
tioned 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 declared to be needed or taken for a public
use.

SEC. 2.¹⁶⁷ The General Assembly of Maryland may
grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any
and all additional power and authority necessary or
proper to carry into full force and effect any and all of
the specific powers which the General Assembly is au-
thorized to grant to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore pursuant to this Article and to fully accom-
plish any and all of the purposes and objects contem-
plated by the provisions of this Article, provided such
additional power or authority is not inconsistent with
the terms and provisions of this Article or with any
other provision or provisions of the Constitution of
Maryland. The General Assembly may place such other
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 under the provisions of this
Article as it may deem proper and expedient.

ARTICLE XI-C¹⁶⁸
OFF-STREET PARKING.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of Maryland,
by public local law, may authorize the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore:

(a) Within the City of Baltimore to acquire land and
property of every kind, and any right, interest, fran-
chise, easement or privilege therein, by purchase, lease,
gift, condemnation or any other legal means, for stor-
ing, parking and servicing self-propelled vehicles, pro-
vided, that no petroleum products shall be sold or of-
fered for sale at any entrance to or exit from, any land
so acquired or at any entrance to, or exit from, any
structure erected thereon, when any entrance to, or exit
from, any such land or structure faces on a street or
highway which is more than 25 feet wide from curb to
curb; and

(b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dis-
pose of any of said land or property, regardless of
whether or not it has been developed, redeveloped, al-
tered, 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 aforementioned pur-
poses 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 by exer-
cising the power of eminent domain, shall be taken
without just compensation, as agreed upon between the