872 ARTICLE 23

Municipal Corporations.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 193. 1912, sec. 259. 1904, sec. 241. 1888, sec. 157. 1876, ch. 367.

194. Any municipal corporation in this State, against which there is a
judgment or decree in any court of law or equity in this State, shall have
power to levy a sum of money upon the assessable property of such munici-
pality sufficient to pay such judgments.

For the purpose of the remedy provided by this section, a judgment rendered by a
justice of the peace may be regarded as a judgment of a court of law. If the munici-
pality refuses to make the required levy to pay the judgment, mandamus lies. Darling v.
Baltimore, 51 Md. 14. And see Watts v. Port Deposit, 46 Md. 505.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 193A. 1927, ch. 690, sec. 193A.

195. Any municipal corporation of this State now owning or here-
after acquiring an electric plant and/or gas plant, as defined in Section
344 of this Article, shall have power to sell, lease, exchange or otherwise
dispose of such electric plant and/or gas plant, or any part of or interest
in either thereof, to any electrical corporation and/or gas corporation, as
defined by said Section 344, upon such terms and conditions as such mu-
nicipal corporation shall determine, provided any such sale, lease, exchange
or other disposition shall be approved by the Public Service Commission
of Maryland, and provided further that notice of any such sale, lease,
exchange or other disposition, and of the approval thereof by said Public
Service Commission, shall be inserted by said municipal corporation in
some newspaper published in the corporate limits thereof, or published in
the county in which said municipal corporation is situate if there shall be
no newspaper published in said corporate limits, at least twice within
fifteen days after the date of order of such approval by said Public Service
Commission.
See sec. 397, et seq.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 193B. 1927, ch. 690, sec. 193B.

196. In addition to the conditions and limitations imposed by Sec-
tion 195 of this Article, any such proposed sale, lease, exchange Or other
disposition of any municipally owned electric plant and/or gas plant, as
defined and contemplated by said section, shall also be ratified by the
affirmative vote of a majority of such persons, residing within the corporate
limits of such municipal corporation and eligible to vote at the last pre-
ceding regular election therein for municipal officers, who shall cast ballots
at a special election f or that purpose, to be arranged for and held at such
time and place within such municipal corporation and in such manner as
such municipal corporation shall prescribe, provided and on condition that
a written petition to such municipal corporation requesting it to arrange
for and hold such special election for such ratification or disapproval of
any such sale, lease, exchange or other disposition, shall be signed by at
least ten per cent, of the voters in such municipal corporation, qualified as
aforesaid in this section, and shall be delivered to said municipal corpora-
tion within thirty days after the date of publication of the second notice
required by Section 195; and if any such sale, lease, exchange or other
disposition shall be ratified as aforesaid at such special election, then such
municipal corporation shall forthwith execute all transfers or other title
papers necessary to consummate and effectuate any such sale, lease, ex-
change or other disposition. But if no such petition for a special election
be signed and delivered to said municipal corporation, as aforesaid, within