HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That in order to
enable it to accomplish and effectuate the object and
purposes of this Act, the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall have all the power of purchase and/or
condemnation of land and property (including the power to
purchase and/or condemn land and property or any interest
therein or appurtenant thereto devoted to public or
quasi-public use) as is conferred upon the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore or any agency thereof by Chapter 349 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of 1904, authorizing the
establishment of the sanitary sewerage and storm water
drainage systems of Baltimore City.

SECTION 5. 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 March 26, 1979

CHAPTER 10

(Senate Bill 28)

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 Seven Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($1,700,000.00), 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 Council of Baltimore, buildings, structures or
facilities to be used by the Fire Department of
Baltimore City for fire stations, and for the
acquisition end 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