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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 608

ARTICLE 89B, §§ 163 to 181, inclusive, of [this article]
THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND (1957 EDITION, AS
AMENDED), including the payment of any redemption premium
thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date
of redemption of such bonds and, if deemed advisable by
the Commission, for any one or more of the following
additional purposes: (a) constructing improvements of any
project or projects in connection with which bonds shall
have been issued under the provisions of this subheading,
and (b) paying all or any part of the cost of any
additional project or projects. In case the Commission,
prior to the issuance of any revenue refunding bonds,
shall have expended any sum not derived from the revenues
of a project for the purpose of paying a part of the cost
of maintaining, repairing and operating such project, the
amount of revenue refunding bonds issued under the
provisions of this section may be increased to the extent
necessary to provide funds for reimbursing the Commission
the sum theretofore so expended. The issuance of such
bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the
rights and remedies of the holders thereof, and the
rights, duties and obligations of the Commission in
respect of the same, shall be governed by the provisions
of this subheading insofar as the same may be applicable.

§23. [§ 138.] Additional method.

The foregoing sections of this subheading shall be
deemed to provide an additional and alternative method
Cor the doing of the things authorized thereby, and shall
be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers
conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in
derogation of any powers now existing; provided, however,
that the issuance of revenue bonds or revenue refunding
bonds under the provisions of this subheading need not
comply with the requirements of any other law applicable
to the issuance of bonds.

§24. [§ 139.] Liberal construction.

The provisions of this subheading, being necessary
for the welfare of the State and its inhabitants, shall
be liberally construed to [affect] EFFECT the purposes
thereof.

§25. [§ 140.] Severability.

The provisions of this subheading are severable, and
if any of its provisions shall be held unconstitutional
by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decision of
such court shall not [effect] AFFECT or impair any of the
remaining provisions.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections
141 through 162, inclusive, of Article 89B — State Roads,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement
Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and they are hereby
repealed and reenacted, with amendments, and transferred