J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                              1529

politic; and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other
persons acting in similar representative capacity.

(j) "Municipality" shall mean a municipal corporation of this
State.

Section 265. Powers.

The municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to carry
out urban renewed projects which shall be limited to slum clear-
ance in slum or blighted areas and redevelopment or the rehabilita-
tion 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 herein, INCLUDING LAND OR PROPERTY AND ANY
RIGHT OR INTEREST THEREIN ALREADY DEVOTED TO
PUBLIC USE, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation or any
other legal means; to sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dis-
pose of any of said land or property, regardless of whether or not
it has been developed, redeveloped, altered or improved and irre-
spective of the manner or means in or by which it may have been
acquired, to any private, public or quasi public corporation, partner-
ship, 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
subtitle are granted to the municipality by exercising the power of
eminent domain 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 municipality for any of the aforementioned purposes
or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers granted by
this subtitle 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 undertaken for
public uses and purposes and the power of taxation may be exer-
cised, public funds expended and public credit extended in further-
ance thereof. The municipality is hereby granted the following ad-
ditional powers which are hereby found and declared to be neces-
sary 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.

(a)   to make or have made all surveys and plans necessary to the
carrying out of the purposes of this subtitle and, to adopt or approve,
modify and amend such plans, which plans may include but shall not
be limited to: (1) plans for carrying out a program of voluntary or
compulsory repair and the rehabilitation of buildings and improve-
ments, (2) plans for the enforcement of codes and ordinance re-
lating to the use of land and the use and occupancy of buildings and
improvements and to the compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demo-
lition, 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 re-
lated 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