COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	ARTICLE Xl-C. OFF-STREET PARKING.
	Section 1. The General Assembly of	See Section 1.16, Eminent Domain, p. 33;
	Maryland, by public local law, may authorize	Section 3.22, General Application of Laws,
	the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore:	p. 31; Sections 7.01-7.04, beginning at p. 89.
	(a) Within the City of Baltimore to
	acquire land and property of every kind,
	and any right, interest, franchise, easement
	or privilege therein, by purchase, lease,
	gift, condemnation or any other legal means,
	for storing, parking and servicing self-pro-
	pelled vehicles, provided, that no petroleum
	products shall be sold or offered for sale at
	any entrance to or exit from, any land so
	acquired or at any entrance to, or exit from,
	any structure erected thereon, when any
	entrance to, or exit from, any such land or
	structure faces on a street or highway which
	is more than 25 feet wide from curb to curb;
	and
	(b) To sell, lease, convey, transfer or
	otherwise 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 Mayor
	and City Council of Baltimore for any of
	the aforementioned purposes or in connec-
	tion with the exercise of any of the powers
	which may be granted to the Mayor and
	City Council of Baltimore pursuant to this
	Article by exercising the power of eminent
	domain, shall be taken without just compen-
	sation, as agreed upon between the parties,
	or awarded by a jury, being first paid or
	tendered to the party entitled to such com-
	pensation.
	All land or property needed, or taken by
	the exercise of the power of eminent domain,
	by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
	for any of the aforementioned purposes or
	in connection with the exercise of any of the
	powers which may be granted to the Mayor
	and City Council of Baltimore pursuant to
	this Article is hereby declared to be needed
	or taken for a public use.
	Sec. 2. The General Assembly of Mary-
	land may grant to the Mayor and City
	Council of Baltimore any and all additional
	power and authority necessary or proper to
	carry into full force and effect any and all
	of the specific powers which the General
	Assembly is authorized to grant to the Mayor

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