540                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 226

derived from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used
for or in connection with planning, developing, executing and
making operative the Urban Renewal Program of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, including, but not limited to, the ac-
quisition, by purchase, lease, condemnation or any other legal
means, of land or property, or any right, interest, franchise, ease-
ment or privilege therein, in the City of Baltimore; the payment
of any and all costs and expenses incurred in connection with or
incidental to the acquisition and management of said land or
property, including any and all rights or interests therein here-
inbefore mentioned; the payment of any and all costs and ex-
penses incurred for or in connection with relocating and moving
persons or other legal entities displaced by the acquisition of said
land or property, or any of the rights or interests therein here-
inbefore mentioned: the development or redevelopment, includ-
ing, but not limited to, the comprehensive renovation or re-
habilitation of any land or property, or any rights or interests
therein hereinbefore mentioned, in the City of Baltimore, and the
disposition of land and property for such purposes; the elimina-
tion of unhealthful, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, lessening
density, eliminating obsolete or other uses detrimental to the pub-
lic welfare or otherwise removing or preventing the spread of
blight or deterioration in the City of Baltimore; the demolition,
removal, relocation, renovation or alteration of land, buildings,
streets, highways, alleys, utilities or services, and other structures
or improvements, and for the construction, reconstruction, in-
stallation, relocation or repair of buildings, streets, highways,
alleys, utilities or services, and other structures or improvements;
the payment of any and all costs and expenses incurred for or in
connection with doing any or all of the things herein mentioned,
including, but not limited to, the costs and expenses of securing
administrative, appraisal, economic analysis, engineering, plan-
ning, designing, architectural, surveying, and other professional
services; and doing any and all things necessary, proper or ex-
pedient in connection with or pertaining to any or all of the
matters or things hereinbefore mentioned; authorizing said
municipality to submit an ordinance or ordinances for said pur-
pose 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 Three Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dol-
lars ($3,900,000.00), 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 sub-