446                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 147

land or property now or hereafter owned by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, buildings, structures or facilities to be used
by the Fire Department of Baltimore City for fire stations, and
for the acquisition and installation of equipment for any and all
new facilities authorized to be constructed or erected under the
provisions hereof, 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.

Sec. 4. 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 147
(House Bill 609)

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 Seven Million
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7,500,000.00), the proceeds
derived from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used
for the acquisition, by purchase or condemnation or any other
legal means, of land or property in the City of Baltimore and
establishing thereon or therein, or on or in land or property now or
hereafter owned by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, new
parks, playgrounds, playfields, playlots, swimming pools, recrea-
tional centers or recreational buildings; and for the design,
redesign, development, redevelopment and improvement of park,
school and other properties now or hereafter owned by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore for park or recreational purposes;
and for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, installation,
erection, protection, extension, enlargement, renovation or mod-
ernization of, and additions to, public park or recreational build-
ings, structures or facilities; and for the acquisition and installation
of equipment for any and all new facilities authorized to be con-
structed, erected or established under the provisions hereof, 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