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(13) The General Assembly may, from time to time,
enact such laws not inconsistent with this section, as may
be necessary and proper to carry out its provisions.
(14) In the event of any inconsistency between any of
the provisions of this Section and any of the other provi-
sions of the Constitution, the provisions of this Section
shall prevail. But nothing herein shall in any manner affect
the provisions of Section 34 of Article 3 of the Constitution
or of any laws heretofore or hereafter passed in pursuance
thereof, or be construed as preventing the Governor from
calling extraordinary sessions of the General Assembly, as
provided by Section 16 of Article 2, or as preventing the
General Assembly at such extraordinary sessions from con-
sidering any emergency appropriation or appropriations.
(15) If any item of any appropriation bill passed under
the provisions of this Section shall be held invalid upon any
ground, such invalidity shall not affect the legality of the
bill or of any other item of such bill or bills.
SEC. 53.90 Vacant.
SEC. 54.91 No County of this State shall contract any
debt, or obligation, in the construction of any Railroad,
Canal, or other Work of Internal Improvement, nor give, or
loan its credit to, or in aid of any association, or corporation,
unless authorized by an Act of the General Assembly
SEC. 55. The Genera) Assembly shall pass no Law
suspending the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
SEC. 56. The General Assembly shall have power to
pass all such Laws as may be necessary and proper for
carrying into execution the powers vested, by this Consti-
tution, in any Department, or office of the Government,
and the duties imposed upon them thereby.
SEC. 57. The Legal Rate of Interest shall be Six per
cent per annum, unless otherwise provided by the General
Assembly.
SEC. 58.92 The Legislature shall provide by Law for
State and municipal taxation upon the revenues accruing
from business done in the State by all foreign corporations.
SEC. 59.93 The Legislature shall pass no law creating
the office of "State Pension Commissioner", or establishing
any general pension system within this State.
SEC. 60.94 The General Assembly of Maryland shall
have the power to provide by suitable general enactment
(a) for the suspension of sentence by the Court in criminal
cases; (b) for any form of the indeterminate sentence in
criminal cases, and (c) for the release upon parole in
whatever manner the General Assembly may prescribe, of
convicts imprisoned under sentence for crimes.
SEC. 61.95 (a) The General Assembly may authorize
and empower any county or any municipal corporation, by
public local law:
(1) To carry out urban renewal projects which shall be
limited to slum clearance in slum or blighted areas and
redevelopment or the rehabilitation of slum or blighted
areas, and to include the acquisition, within the boundary
lines of such county or municipal corporation, of land and
property of every kind and any right, interest, franchise,
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easement or privilege therein, by purchase, lease, gift,
condemnation or any other legal means. The term "slum
area" shall mean any area where dwellings predominate
which, by reason of depreciation, overcrowding, faulty
arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light or sanitary
facilities, or any combination of these factors, are detrimen-
tal to the public safety, health or morals. The term "blighted
area" shall mean an area in which a majority of buildings
have declined in productivity by reason of obsolescence,
depreciation or other causes to an extent they no longer
justify fundamental repairs and adequate maintenance.
(2) 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 any county or any municipal
corporation for any of the aforementioned purposes or in
connection with the exercise of any of the powers which may
be granted to such county or municipal corporation pursuant
to this section 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 any county or any
municipal corporation for any of the aforementioned pur-
poses or in connection with the exercise of any of the
powers which may be granted pursuant to this Section is
hereby declared to be needed or taken for public uses and
purposes. Any or all of the activities authorized pursuant
to this section shall constitute governmental functions
undertaken for public uses and purposes and the power of
taxation may be exercised, public funds expended and
public credit extended in furtherance thereof.
(b) The General Assembly may grant to any county or
any municipal corporation, by public local law, any and all
additional power and authority necessary or proper to carry
into full force and effect any and all of the specific powers
authorized by this section and to fully accomplish any and
all of the purposes and objects contemplated by the provi-
sions of this section, provided such additional power or
authority is not inconsistent with the terms and provisions
of this section or with any other provision or provisions of
the Constitution of Maryland.
(c) The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local
law, may establish or authorize the establishment of a
public body or agency to undertake in a county or munici-
pal corporation (other than Baltimore City) the activities
authorized by this section, and may provide that any or all
of the powers, except the power of taxation, herein author-
ized to be granted to such county or municipal corporation
shall be vested in such public body or agency or in any
existing public body or agency.
(d) The General Assembly may place such other and
further restrictions or limitations on the exercise of any of
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