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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 Constitu-
tion 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."4 Vacant.
ARTICLE XI-C.185
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, franchise, easement or
privilege therein, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation or any
other legal means, for storing, parking and servicing self-
propelled vehicles, provided, that no petroleum products shall be
sold or offered 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 dispose of any of
said land or property, regardless of whether or not it 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 aforementioned purposes or in connec-
tion 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 exercising 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 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 connec-
tion 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 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
authority is not inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this
Article or with any other provision or provisions of the Constitu-
tion 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. 3.186 In addition to the powers grafted and exercised
under Sections 1 and 2, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
""Repealed by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
'"Added by Chapter 505, Acts of 1947, ratified Nov. 2, 1948.
'"Added by Chapter 552, Acts of 1976, ratified Nov. 2, 1976.
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may, by ordinance, borrow money to finance the establishment,
construction, erection, alteration, expansion, enlarging, improv-
ing, equipping, repairing, maintaining, operating, controlling, and
regulating 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 taxes, 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 revenue 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, charges
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 Maryland. 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 method and terms of
payment therefor, and may authorize the Commissioners of
Finance by resolution to determine any matters hereinabove
recited and to do any and all things necessary or appropriate in
connection with the issuance and sale thereof.
ARTICLE XI-D.'87
PORT DEVELOPMENT.
SECTION I.188 The General Assembly of Maryland, 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, condemnation 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 dispose 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 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 purposes or in connec-
tion 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 exercising 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 tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation.
'"Added by Chapter 199, Acts of 1951, ratified Nov. 4, 1952.
i8'Amended by Chapter 754, Acts of 1953, ratified Nov. 2, 1954;
Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.
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