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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 130

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three—fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1978.

CHAPTER 131

(House Bill 527)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore City - Fire Department Bond Issue

FOR the purpose of authorizing 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 One Million Two Hundred Fifty
Thousand Dollars $1,250,000) One Million Five Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollars ($1,550,000), 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 and erecting on said
land or property, or on any land or property now or
hereafter owned by the Mayor and City County 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 existing facilities or 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; 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 One Million
Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($1,250,000) One Million