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an easement therein, immediately by condemnation; and, in
that event, land used for cemetery purposes, either
public or private, or an easement therein may be
condemned provided the land or easement sought to be
acquired by the commission is for the purpose of the
installation of sewer lines or water lines, which lines
shall be constructed below the surface of the earth and
enclosed; and further provided that the land or easement
to be acquired shall not disturb any existing grave,
grave marker or Monument, or any grave site the title to
which has been transferred as a result of a bona fide
sale or exchange or in which burial rights have vested or
been transferred as a result of a bona fide sale or
exchange, and the commission may likewise condemn the
interest of any tenant, lessee, or other person having an
interest in the land, structure or buildings, stream bed,
waterway, water right or watershed.

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
13, of Article 44A — Housing Authorities, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland {1971 Replacement Volume and
1973 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 44A — Housing Authorities
13.

An authority may acquire by the exercise of the
power of eminent domain any real property which it deems
necessary for its purposes under this article after the
adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the
acquisition of the real property described therein is
necessary for those purposes. An authority may exercise
the power of eminent domain in the manner provided in
Title 12 of THE REAL PROPERTY Article [21] of [this] THE
Code; or it may exercise the power of eminent domain in
the manner provided by any other applicable statutory
provisions for the exercise of the power of eminent
domain. Property already devoted to a public use may be
acquired in like manner, provided that no real property
belonging to the city, the State or any political
subdivision thereof may be acquired without its consent.

SECTION 7. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
6(c), of Article 62B - Maryland Port Administration, of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume
and 1973 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 62B — Maryland Port Administration

6.