HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(2) The construction, operation, and maintenance
of wholesale markets, and in particular a [single]
consolidated market for the Greater Baltimore Region, as
defined herein, would require the expenditure of a large sum
of money; the financial systems of the political
subdivisions of the Greater Baltimore Region are not
designed to handle projects of this type on a nonprofit,
self—liquidating basis, and the best method of distributing
responsibility for this problem and of achieving the
creation of a market is to create and empower a market
authority as a public corporation, the function of which
would be to acquire land for and to construct and operate
such a market; and to aid and assist by the making of loans
and otherwise those persons engaged in the wholesale food
industry who wish to locate in such market.

(4) It is desirable and in the public interest
that these conditions be eliminated and corrected and that
an economical and modern method of marketing wholesale food
in the State of Maryland be established by the construction
of a modern, sanitary, and accessible market, [including]
THAT MAY INCLUDE:

(I)   warehouse facilities used by
wholesalers or retailers principally engaged in the sale of
food and used for storage of food and beverages and such
nonfood products as may be sold from time to time in
connection with the sale of food at retail[, and including
parking]; and

(II)   ANY [other] ancillary OR OTHER
APPURTENANT facilities [as may be deemed necessary or
advisable to the overall success of the market.] THAT THE
AUTHORITY DETERMINES TO BE ADVISABLE IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THE
PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR PUBLIC ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE MARKET,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PARKING OR OTHER TRANSPORTATION
FACILITIES, RESTAURANTS, SHOPS, STORES, BANKS, OR OTHER
COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES GENERALLY.

412.

(a) A body corporate and politic, to be known as "The
Maryland [Wholesale] Food Center Authority" is created to be
an instrumentality of the State of Maryland and a public
corporation by that name, style and title. It may contract
and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be
impleaded, and complain and defend in all courts of law and
equity.

413.

As used in this subtitle, the words and terms listed in
this section and used in their place have the meaning
indicated unless the context shall indicate another or
different meaning or intent.