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respects for the benefit of the people of the State and of the District
and is for a public purpose and that the Authority and the Board will
be performing an essential governmental function. Accordingly, any
and all real and personal property (both tangible and intangible)
and any and all right, title and interest therein, gross receipts,
gross or net income, purchases, sales, franchises, licenses, operations,
activities and functions, owned or controlled, or received, or made,
or performed or carried on, by the Authority shall be and remain
totally exempt from any and all taxes, assessments, charges and fees
of every kind, now or hereafter in effect, imposed, levied or made
by the State of Maryland or any political subdivision, or any agency
or instrumentality of any of them.

50. 49. Liability for contracts and torts.

The Authority shall be liable for its contracts and for its torts
and those of its Directors, officers, employees and agents in con-
nection with the performance of the duties and functions imposed
in this Article. The exclusive remedy for such breach of contracts
and torts shall be by suit against the Authority. No execution,
however, shall be levied on any property of the Authority or the
State of Maryland.

51. 50. District and Authority are not municipalities.

The term "municipal corporation" in Article XI-E of the Con-
stitution of Maryland does not embrace or include the District or the
Authority. The District and the Authority cannot be classified in any
group of municipal corporations as required by said Article XI-E
and that Article has no application to the District or the Authority.

52. 51. Act liberally construed.

This Act, by necessity for the welfare of the State and its inhabit-
ants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.

53. 52. Severability.

If any part or parts, section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase
of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance,
is for any reason declared unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Act which shall
remain in force as if such Act had been passed with the uncon-
stitutional part or parts, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase
or such applications thereto eliminated; and the General Assembly
hereby declares that it would have passed this Act if such uncon-
stitutional part or parts, section, subsections, sentence, clause or
phrase had not been included herein or if such application had not
been made.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 56A, 69A, 75A and 88A 56A, 56B, 56C, 69A, 75A,
88A AND 88B, be and they are hereby added to Article 78 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition