J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           1483

be limited to: (1) plans for carrying out a program of voluntary or
compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings and improvements,
(2) plans for the enforcement of codes and regulations relating to
the use of land and the use and occupancy of buildings and improve-
ments and to the compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or
removal of buildings and improvements, and (3) appraisals, title
searches, surveys, studies, and other plans and work necessary to
prepare for the undertaking of urban renewal projects and related
activities; and to apply for, accept and utilize grants of funds from
the Federal Government for such purposes;

(b)   to prepare plans for the relocation of persons (including
families, business concerns and others) displaced from an urban
renewal area, and to make relocation payments to or with respect
to such persons for moving expenses and losses of property for which
reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made, including the
making of such payments financed by the Federal Government;

(c)  to appropriate such funds and make such expenditures as may
be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Article, and to levy
taxes and assessments for such purposes; to borrow money and to
apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions and any
other form of financial assistance from the Federal Government, the
State, County or other public bodies, or from any sources, public or
private, for the purposes of this Article, and to give such security as
may be required therefor; to invest any urban renewal funds held in
reserves or sinking funds or any such funds not required for im-
mediate disbursement, in property or securities which are legal in-
vestments for other municipal funds.

(d)   to hold, improve, clear or prepare for redevelopment any
property acquired in connection with urban renewal projects; to
mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise encumber such property;
to insure or provide for the insurance of such property or operations
of the municipality against any risks or hazards, including the power
to pay premiums on any such insurance;

(e)  to make and execute all contracts and other instruments neces-
sary or convenient to the exercise of its powers under this Article,
including the power to enter into agreements with other public
bodies or agencies (which agreements may extend over any period,
notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary), and
to include in any contract for financial assistance with the Federal
Government for or with respect to an urban renewal project and
related activities such conditions imposed pursuant to Federal laws
as the municipality may deem reasonable and appropriate;

(f)  to enter into any building or property in any urban renewal
area in order to make inspections, surveys, appraisals, soundings or
test borings, and to obtain an order for this purpose from the Circuit
Court for the county in which the municipality is situated in the
event entry is denied or resisted;

(g)  to plan, replan, install, construct, reconstruct, repair, close or
vacate streets, roads, sidewalks, public utilities, parks, playgrounds,
and other public improvements in connection with an urban renewal
project; and to make exceptions from building regulations;

(h) to generally organize, coordinate and direct the administration
of the provisions of this Article as they apply to such municipality in