MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                         1605

(h) "Bonds" shall mean any bonds (including refunding bonds),
notes, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, debentures or
other obligations.

(i) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, partnership,
corporation, 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 Town of Morningside, a mu-
nicipal corporation of the State of Maryland.

52-69. 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 projects,
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 of every kind and any
right, 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,
regardless of whether or not it has been developed, redeveloped,
altered, 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 this article are granted to the municipality
by exercising the power of eminent domain shall be taken without
just compensation, as agreed upon between 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 or taken by the exercise of any of the
powers granted by this article is hereby declared to be needed or
taken for public uses and purposes. Any or all of the activities au-
thorized 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 following additional powers which are hereby found and de-
clared to be necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect
the specific powers hereinbefore granted and to fully accomplish
the purposes and objectives contemplated by the provisions of this
section:

(1) To make or have all surveys made and plans necessary to
the carrying out of the purposes of this article and to adopt or ap-
prove, modify and amend such plans, which plans may include but
shall not be limited to (i) Plans for carrying out a program of vol-
untary or compulsory repair