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 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 pur-
poses or in connection with the exercise of any ofme
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 cany
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 incon
sistent 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. In addition to the powers granted and
exercised under Sections 1 and 2, the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore may by ordinance, borrow money to
finance the establishment, construction, erection, altera-
tion, expansion, enlarging, improving, equipping, repair
ing, 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
denved 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 issuedhereunder 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
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or appropnate in connection with the issuance and sale
thereof

ARTICLE XI-D.¹⁹³
PORT DEVELOPMENT

SECTION I.¹⁹⁴ 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 resolu
uon duly passed after a public hearing, by the governing
body of the county in which such land or property or such
nght, interest, franchise, casement 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 pur-
poses or in connection with the exercise of any oFthe
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 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. I.¹⁹⁵ 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 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 authority is not
inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this Article
or with any other provision or provisions of the Constitu