Maryland Manual 1994-1995

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
derived from such facilities, and may further pledge reve-
nues 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 Balti-
more 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 there-
for, 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.¹⁹⁴
PORT DEVELOPMENT.

SECTION 1.¹⁹⁵ 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 reso-
lution 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 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 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. 2.¹⁹⁶ 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-
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. 3.¹⁹⁷ Provided, however, that no public local law
enacted under the provisions and authority of this Article
shall be enacted or construed to authorize the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore to exercise or apply any of the
powers or authority in this Article enumerated within the
territorial limits of Howard County.

ARTICLE XI-E.¹⁹⁸
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

SECTION 1. Except as provided elsewhere in this
Article, the General Assembly shall not pass any law relating
to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs
of those municipal corporations which are not authorized
by Article 11-A of the Constitution to have a charter form
of government which will be special or local in its terms or
in its effect, but the General Assembly shall act in relation
to the incorporation, organization, government, or affairs
of any such municipal corporation only by general laws
which shall in their terms and in their effect apply alike to
all municipal corporations in one or more of the classes
provided for in Section 2 of this Article. It shall be the duty
of the General Assembly to provide by law the method by
which new municipal corporations shall be formed.

SEC. 2. The General Assembly, by law, shall classify
all such municipal corporations by grouping them into not
more than four classes based on populations as determined
by the most recent census made under the authority of the
United States or the State of Maryland. No more than one