J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1541

(i) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, partnership, cor-
poration, company, association, joint stock association, or body
politic; and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other
person acting in similar representative capacity.

(j) "Municipality" shall mean The City of Bowie, a municipal
corporation in the State of Maryland.

2. Powers.

The municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to carry
out urban renewal projects which shall be limited to slum clearance
in slum or blighted areas and redevelopment or the rehabilitation
of slum or blighted areas; to acquire in connection with such proj-
ects, within the corporate limits of the municipality, land and
property of every kind and any right, interest, franchise, easement
or privilege therein, 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 dispose of any of said land or property, re-
gardless 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 municipality for any of
the aforementioned purposes or in connection with the exercise of
any of the powers which by this subheading 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 con-
nection with the exercise of any of the powers granted by this
subheading 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
exercised, public funds expended and public credit extended in
furtherance thereof. The municipality is hereby granted the follow-
ing additional powers which are hereby found and declared to be
necessary 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:

(1) to make or have made all surveys and plans necessary to
the carrying out of the purposes of this subheading and to adopt or
approve, modify and amend such plans, which plans may include
but shall not be limited to: (i) plans for carrying out a program
of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings
and improvements, (ii) plans for the enforcement of codes and regu-
lations relating to the use of land and the use and occupancy of
buildings and improvements and to the compulsory repair, rehabili-
tation, demolition, or removal of buildings and improvements; and
(iii) appraisals, title searches, surveys, studies, and other plans and
work necessary to prepare for the undertaking of urban renewal
projects and related activities; and apply for, accept and utilize
grants of funds from the Federal Government for such purposes;