1680 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 728

payment thereof and interest thereon, and to arrange for
the acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance
of the off-street parking facilities for motor vehicles as
hereinbefore mentioned. The bonds or certificates of in-
debtedness issued under the provisions of this Act shall be
the direct obligations of the Mayor and City Council, and
the said corporation shall be responsible therefor and the
guarantor thereof.

799D. The Mayor and City Council are hereby author-
ized to fix and to revise from time to time rates, rentals or
charges for the use of its off-street parking facilities, and
to charge and collect the same, and to contract with any
person, partnership, association or corporation desiring the
use of any facility or facilities provided under this Act, and
to fix the terms, conditions and rates of charges for such
use. All funds collected from the operation of the off-street
parking facilities provided for in this Act must be de-
posited in the Parking Lot Fund Account as hereinbefore
provided in this Act, to be used only for the purpose of pay-
ing the costs of the acquisition, planning, construction,
operation and maintenance of the off-street parking facili-
ties and payment when due of the interest and principal of
all bonds and/or certificates of indebtedness maturing in
each such fiscal year issued under the provisions of this Act.

799E. In the event the funds collected from the opera-
tion of the off-street parking facilities in any fiscal year
shall prove insufficient for the purposes set forth in Sec-
tion 799D, then and in that event only the Mayor and City
Council in the succeeding fiscal year is hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to levy and cause to be collected a
special tax in the nature of an ad valorem tax in an amount
at a rate sufficient to make up any such deficiency. The ad
valorem tax rate as determined shall be levied upon the
assessed value of all real estate including both the value of
improvements and the value of the land which is zoned
and/or used for commercial, industrial, apartments, or
general business use within the corporate limits of the City.

799F. The special taxes hereinabove authorized if levied
shall be collected and have the same priority rights, bear
the same interest and penalties as the City Taxes and shall
constitute a lien upon all property assessed, provided, how-
ever, that before any assessment is levied hereunder, notice
in writing of the proposed assessment shall be sent to all
owners of property against which the assessment is pro-
posed to be levied, naming in said notice a time and place