SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                     1617

CHAPTER 739
(House Bill 657)

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 four million dollars
($4,000,000.00), the proceeds derived from the sale of the certifi-
cates of indebtedness to be used for extending, enlarging, develop-
ing and improving the Friendship International Airport, including,
but not limited to, the acquisition, by purchase, condemnation or
any other legal means, of land or property, or any rights therein,
located within or outside the boundary lines of Baltimore City
BUT NOT FOR LAND ACQUISITION WITHIN ANNE ARUN-
DEL COUNTY; the construction of new runways and extensions
thereto and extension to existing runways; the construction on erec-
tion of new buildings or structures; additions and improvements
to the existing service and terminal buildings and other buildings or
structures; equipment for any and all new facilities authorized to
be constructed or erected by the provisions hereof; the construction
and erection of roads and parking facilities; the construction of
paving of taxiways and ramps or aprons, and doing any and all
things necessary, proper or expedient in connection with or per-
taining to any or all of the matters or things hereinbefore men-
tioned; 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 (hereinafter called "bonds") as evidence thereof, to
an amount not exceeding Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000.00), the
proceeds derived from the sale thereof to be used for the purposes
hereinafter mentioned, but said debt shall not be created and 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 Maryland; 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
separate ordinances, submit a part thereof to the legal voters of
said city at different times; and any ordinance or ordinances sub-
mitting the whole or any part of such debt to the legal voters of