Marvin Mandel, Governor                         391

CHAPTER 125
(Senate Bill 449)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
create a debt, and to issue its certificates of indebtedness as evi-
dence thereof, to an amount not exceeding four million five hun-
dred thousand dollars ($4,500,000.00), the proceeds derived from
the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used for the
acquisition, by purchase, condemnation, or any other legal means,
of land or property, or any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore,
and for constructing, erecting, and equipping on said land or
property, or on any land or property now or hereafter owned by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, new buildings, struc-
tures and facilities, to be used by the Police Department of Balti-
more City as a Central District Police Station, and for connecting
said Central District Police Station to the new building or structure
which is to be used by said department as its headquarters, and
for doing any and all things necessary, proper or expedient in con-
nection 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 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 (hereafter called "bonds") as evidence thereof, to
an amount not exceeding Four Million Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($4,500,000.00), 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 Mary-
land; 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 gen-
eral 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
Baltimore City shall provide for the expenditure of the proceeds
thereof in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal agency
designated in the annual Ordinances of Estimates of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore.