2092

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 709

block grants projects; establishing an urban renewal a
community development block grants agency; providing
for the preparation and approval of a plan for an urban
renewal a community development block grants project;
providing for the disposal of property in an urban
renewal a community development area; granting certain
powers of eminent domain; encouraging certain private
enterprise; providing for general obligation and
revenue bonds; and establishing a short title.

BY adding to

The Public local Laws of Calvert County

Section 241D through 241P to be under the new

subheading "North Beach Urban Renewal Community

Development"
Article 5 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1963 Edition and 1970 Supplement, as amended)

Preamble

WHEREAS, It is hereby found and declared that there
exists in North Beach, Maryland, areas or conditions which
require redevelopment, renewal, or rehabilitation with the
aid and assistance of federal and other government funds;
that the existence of those areas contributes to the spread
of crime and disease, constitutes an economic and moral
liability, decreases the tax base, reduces tax revenues,
increases juvenile delinquency, aggravates traffic
conditions and causes numerous traffic problems; that the
prevention and elimination of these conditions is a matter
of public concern of the State of Maryland and North Beach,
Calvert County. It is further found and declared that the
existence of these conditions makes it necessary to acquire
private property for redevelopment, renewal, and
rehabilitation and such acquisition is hereby declared to be
for a public purpose; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as
follows:

Article 5 - Calvert County

NORTH BEACH URBAN RENEWAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

241D.

(A)    IN THIS SUBHEADING THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(B)    "BLIGHTED AREA" MEANS AN AREA IN WHICH A MAJORITY
OF BUILDINGS HAVE DECLINED IN PRODUCTIVITY BY REASON OF
OBSOLESCENCE, DEPRECIATION, OR OTHER CAUSES TO AN EXTENT
THEY NO LONGER JUSTIFY FUNDAMENTAL REPAIRS AND ADEQUATE