250                               Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 214

CHAPTER 214

(Senate Bill 312)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of indebtedness
as evidence thereof, to an amount not exceeding Twelve Million
Dollars ($12,000,000.00), the proceeds derived from the sale of
the certificates of indebtedness to be used for the purpose of
enlarging, extending and improving the sanitary sewerage and
storm water drainage systems of Baltimore City, including, but
not limited to, the construction of additional sewage disposal
plants, pumping stations and other appurtenances, the alteration,
repair and improvement of existing sewage disposal plants, pump-
ing stations and other appurtenances, and the acquisition by pur-
chase or condemnation of any and all sanitary and storm water
sewers, sewage disposal plants, pumping stations and other appur-
tenances, as well as of any and all land and property, and of any
right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, as may be
necessary for any or all of the above mentioned purposes, and
any or all of said work or acquisition of property may be done
either within or outside of the boundary lines of Baltimore City
conferring certain powers upon said municipality in connection
with the purchase and condemnation of land and property to
enable it to accomplish and effectuate the objectives and purposes
of this Act; authorizing said municipality to submit an ordinance
or ordinances for said purpose to the legal voters of Baltimore
City, and providing generally for the issuance and sale of said
certificates of indebtedness.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That:

(a)   The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and it is hereby
authorized to create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of
indebtedness (hereafter called "bonds") as evidence thereof, to an
amount not exceeding Twelve Million Dollars ($12,000,000.00), the
proceeds derived from the sale thereof to be used for the purposes
hereinafter mentioned, but said bonds shall not be issued in whole
or in part unless an ordinance or ordinances of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore providing for the issuance thereof shall be
first submitted to the legal voters of Baltimore City at such time
and place as may be fixed by said ordinance or ordinances and be
approved by a majority of the votes cast at such time and place, all
as required by Section 7 of Article XI of the Constitution of Mary-
land; and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in submitting
any ordinance or ordinances for the issuance of said bonds, or any
part thereof, to the legal voters of Baltimore City, may submit and
resubmit the same at any municipal election as well as at any general
election to be held in Baltimore City.

(b)   The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may submit, by
one ordinance, the whole of the debt authorized by this Act to the
legal voters of Baltimore City at one time, or it may, by one or more

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

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Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.