Article XI-C

parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid or ten-
dered 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 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 is hereby
declared 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 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.

SEC. 3.¹⁶⁹ In addition to the powers granted and ex-
ercised under Sections 1 and 2, the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore may, by ordinance, borrow money
to finance the establishment, construction, erection, al-
teration, expansion, enlarging, improving, equipping, re-
pairing, maintaining, operating, controlling, and regu-
lating of off-street parking facilities owned or to be
owned by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
and evidence such borrowing by the issuance of revenue
bonds, notes or other obligations to be secured by a
pledge of the revenues derived from such facilities, and
may further pledge revenues collected from parking tax-
es, parking fees or charges, parking fines or any other
revenue derived from the parking of motor vehicles in
the City of Baltimore to or for the payment of such rev-
enue bonds, notes or other obligations; and for such
purposes the Commissioners of Finance are empowered
to maintain a fund consisting of the revenue pledged
herein. The bonds, notes or other obligations issued
hereunder and the pledge of revenues, taxes, fees, charg-
es or fines provided for herein shall not constitute a
general obligation of nor a pledge of the faith and credit
or taxing power of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore and shall not constitute a debt of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore within the meaning of
Section 7 of Article XI of the Constitution of Mary-
land. The ordinance may prescribe the form and terms
of the bonds, notes or other obligations, the time and
manner of public or private sale thereof, and the meth-
od and terms of payment therefor, and may authorize
the Commissioners of Finance by resolution to deter-
mine any matters hereinabove recited and to do any
and all things necessary or appropriate in connection
with the issuance and sale thereof.

"''' Added by Chapter 552, Acts of 1976, ratified November 2,
1976.

Constitution of Maryland/695

ARTICLE XI-D¹⁷⁰
PORT DEVELOPMENT.

SECTION I.¹⁷¹ The General Assembly of Mary-
land, by public local law, may authorize the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore:

(a) To acquire land and property of every kind, and
any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege
therein, in adjoining or in the vicinity of the Patapsco
River or its tributaries, by purchase, lease, gift, condem-
nation or any other legal means, for or in connection
with extending, developing or improving the harbor or
port of Baltimore and its facilities and the highways
and approaches thereto; and providing, further, that the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not acquire
any such land or property, or any such right, interest,
franchise, easement or privilege therein, for any of said
purposes, in any of the counties of this State without
the prior consent and approval by resolution duly
passed after a public hearing, by the governing body of
the county in which such land or property, or such
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 dis-
pose of any of said land or property, regardless 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 ac-
quired, to any private, public or quasi public corpora-
tion, partnership, association, person or other legal enti-
ty.

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.

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. 2.¹⁷² The General Assembly of Maryland may
grant to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any
and all additional power and authority necessary or