1678 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 728

added to the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's
County (Flack's 1943 Edition), being Article 17 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Prince
George's County", sub-title "Hyattsville", said new sections
to be known as Sections 799A to 799F, inclusive, and to
follow immediately after Section 799 of said Article and
to read as follows:

799A. The Mayor and City Council of Hyattsville, in
addition to the corporate powers heretofore granted, is
hereby authorized and empowered to acquire land and prop-
erty of every kind, including property used or held for pub-
lic or quasi-public purposes, by purchase, lease, gift, devise,
condemnation, or any other legal means, for use and opera-
tion by the City as single or multiple deck off-street parking
facilities for the storage and parking of vehicles, and in
connection therewith to raze existing buildings on any
property so acquired, and to improve, maintain and operate
any such property and construct facilities thereon for the
parking of automobiles or other vehicles by the general
public, and to install meters thereon, and to make such
rules and regulations governing such parking and the con-
duct of such parking lots, including the making, fixing and
collection of charges for the use of the same, as said Mayor
and City Council of the City of Hyattsville may, by ordi-
nance, decide. For the purpose of exercising the powers
herein conferred, the Mayor and City Council of the City
of Hyattsville is authorized to proceed to acquire land and
property of every kind required for any project covered by
the provisions hereof, including property used or held for
public or quasi-public purposes, by condemnation, when-
ever it cannot agree with the owner thereof for the pur-
chase of the same, and such condemnation proceedings shall
be conducted in the manner provided by Article 33A, of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939), Title: "Eminent
Domain", and all the rights, powers and privileges con-
ferred by said Article shall be deemed applicable to and
vested in said Mayor and City Council of the City of Hyatts-
ville. No such land or property taken by the said City by
condemnation for any of the aforesaid purposes 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 the City of Hyattsville for any of the aforementioned
purposes is hereby declared to be needed or taken for a
public use. Any property so operated as an off-street park-