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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in order to enable it to
accomplish and effectuate the object and purposes of this Act, the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall have all the power of
purchase and/or condemnation of land and property (including the
power to purchase and/or condemn land and property or any interest
therein or appurtenant thereto devoted to public or quasi-public
use) as is conferred upon the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
or any agency thereof by Chapter 349 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1904, authorizing the establishment of the sanitary
sewerage and storm water drainage systems of Baltimore City.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate pres-
ervation of the public health and safety, and having been passed by
a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland,
the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 144
(House Bill 606)

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 Six
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($4,600,000.00), the proceeds de-
rived from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used
for or in connection with planning, developing, and making opera-
tive a comprehensive system for the disposal of solid wastes,
including, but not limited to, the following, in connection with
said solid waste disposal system: The acquisition, by purchase
or condemnation, or any other legal means, of land or property, or
any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore; constructing and
erecting 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, structures and facilities and in any other manner
improving and developing said land or property; the establishment
and development of sites for landfills and the establishment and
development of transfer stations; the acquisition or installation
of equipment needed for or in connection with any or all of the
forementioned buildings, structures or facilities or other things,
and for doing any and all things necessary, proper or expedient 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 purpose to the legal
voters of Baltimore City, and providing generally for the issuance
and sale of said certificates of indebtedness, AND SUBJECT TO
CERTAIN CONDITIONS FOR PROJECTS ON LAND LO-
CATED OUTSIDE OF BALTIMORE CITY.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That: