1518                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 842

(d)  "Urban Renewal Project" shall mean undertakings and activi-
ties of a municipality in an urban renewal area for the elimination
and for the prevention of the development or spread of slums and
blight, and many MAY involve slum clearance and redevelopment in
an urban renewal area, or rehabilitation or conservation in an urban
renewal area, or any combination or part thereof in accordance with
an urban renewal plan. Such undertakings and activities may in-
clude—

(1)  acquisition of a slum area or a blighted area or portion thereof;

(2) demolition and removable REMOVAL of buildings and improve-
ments;

(3) installation, relocation, construction or reconstruction of
streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds-; and other improvements neces-
sary for carrying out in the urban renewal area the urban renewal
objectives of this Article XII-A in accordance with the urban re-
newal plan;

(4) disposition of any property acquired in the urban renewal area
including sale, initial leasing or retention by the municipality itself,
at its fair value for uses in accordance with the urban renewal plan;

(5)  carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory
repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements in ac-
cordance with the urban renewal plan;

(6)  acquisition of any other property, right or interest, in the
urban renewal area where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsani-
tary or unsafe conditions, lessen density, eliminate obsolete or other
uses detrimental to the public welfare, or otherwise to remove
or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land
for needed public facilities; and

(7)  the preservation, improvement or embellishment of historic
structures or monuments.

(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 suffi-
ciently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition and re-
moval of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation
as may be proposed to be carried out in the urban renewal area,
zoning and planning changes, if any, land uses, maximum 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, corpora-
tion, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic;
and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other person act-
ing in similar representative capacity.

(j) "Municipality" shall mean the City of Salisbury, a municipal
corporation of this State.