1586                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                         [CH. 775

and work necessary to prepare for the undertaking of urban renewal
projects and related activities; and to apply for, accept and utilize
grants of funds from the Federal Government for such purposes;

(2)   to prepare plans for the relocation of persons (including
families, business concerns and others) displaced from an urban
renewal area, and to make relocation payments to or with respect
to such persons for moving expenses and losses of property for
which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made, includ-
ing the making of such payments financed by the Federal Govern-
ment;

(3)   to appropriate such funds and make such expenditures as
may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this sub-heading, in-
cluding the payment or reimbursement of reasonable actual costs
incurred as a result of utility relocations when such relocations
are made necessary by an urban renewal project, after making
appropriate adjustment for any improvements or betterments to
the utility's facilities made in connection with the relocation; and
to levy taxes and assessments for such purposes; to borrow money
and to apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions
and any other form of financial assistance from the Federal Govern-
ment, the State, County or other public bodies, or from any sources,
public or private, for the purposes of this sub-heading, and to give
such security as may be required therefor; to invest any urban
renewal funds held in reserves or sinking funds or any such funds
not required for immediate disbursement, in property or securities
which are legal investments for other municipal funds.

(4) to hold, improve, clear or prepare for redevelopment any
property acquired in connection with urban renewal projects; to
mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise encumber such property;
to insure or provide for the insurance of such property or operations
of the municipality against any risks or hazards, including the power
to pay premiums on any such insurance;

(5)   to make and execute all contracts and other instruments
necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers under this
sub-heading, including the power to enter into agreement with any
other public bodies or agencies (which agreements may extend over
any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the
contrary), and to include in any contract for financial assistance
with the Federal Government for or with respect to an urban re-
newal project and related activities such conditions imposed pursuant
to Federal laws as the municipality may deem reasonable and ap-
propriate;

(6)   to enter into any building or property in any urban renewal
area in order to make inspections, surveys, appraisals, soundings
or test borings, and to obtain an order for this purpose from the
Circuit Court for the county in which the municipality is situated
in the event entry is denied or resisted;

(7)   to plan, replan, install, construct, reconstruct, repair, close
or vacate streets, roads, sidewalks, public utilities, parks, play-
grounds, and other public improvements in connection with an urban
renewal project; PROVIDED THE SAME SHALL BE APPROVED
BY THE MARYLAND-NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLAN-
NING COMMISSION, and to make exceptions from building regu-