J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           1493

(e)  "Urban Renewal Area" shall mean a slum area or a blighted
area or a combination thereof which the municipality designates as
appropriate for an urban renewal project.

(f)  "Urban Renewal Plan" shall mean a plan, as it exists from
time to time, for an urban renewal project, which plan shall be
sufficiently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition
and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and re-
habilitation as may be proposed to be carried out in the urban re-
newal area, zoning and planning changes, if any, land uses, maxi-
mum density and building requirements.

(g)  "Bonds" shall mean any bonds (including refunding bonds),
notes, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, debentures
or other obligations.

(h) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, partnership, cor-
poration, company, association, joint stock association, or body
politic; and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other
person acting in similar representative capacity.

(j) "Municipality" shall mean The City of Hagerstown, a munici-
pal corporation of this State.

Section 2. Powers. The municipality is hereby authorized and em-
powered to carry out urban renewal projects which shall be limited
to slum clearance in slum or blighted areas and redevelopment or
the rehabilitation of slum or blighted areas; to acquire in connection
with such projects, within the corporate limits of the municipality,
land and property of every kind and any right, interest, franchise,
easement or privilege therein, INCLUDING LAND OR PROPERTY
AND ANY RIGHT OR INTEREST THEREIN ALREADY DE-
VOTED TO PUBLIC USE, by purchase, lease, gift, condemna-
tion or any other legal means; to sell, lease, convey, transfer or other-
wise dispose of any of said land or property, regardless of whether
or not it 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 municipality for any of the aforementioned
purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers
which by this Article are granted to the municipality by exercising
the power of eminent domain shall be taken without just compensa-
tion, as agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a jury, be-
ing 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 municipality for any of the aforementioned
purposes or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers
granted by this Article is hereby declared to be needed or taken for
public uses and purposes. Any or all of the activities authorized
pursuant to this section shall constitute governmental functions un-
dertaken for public uses and purposes and the power of taxation
may be exercised, public funds expended and public credit extended
in furtherance thereof. The municipality is hereby granted the fol-
lowing additional powers which are hereby found and declared to be
necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect the specific
powers hereinbefore granted and to fully accomplish the purposes
and objects contemplated by the provisions of this section: