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advertising, attorneys' fees, and all other incidental
expenses connected therewith; and

(b) The remainder of such proceeds shall be used for
the purpose of enlarging, extending, altering, modernizing
and improving the sanitary sewerage, storm water drainage,
and stream valley systems of Baltimore City, including, but
not limited to, the construction of additional sewage
disposal plants, pumping stations and other appurtenances,
the alteration, enlargement, modernization, and improvement
of existing sewage disposal plants, pumping stations, and
other appurtenances, and the acquisition by purchase or
condemnation of any and all sanitary and storm water sewers,
sewage disposal plants, pumping stations and other
appurtenances, as well as of any and all land and property,
and of any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege
therein, as may be necessary for any or all of the above
mentioned purposes, and 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, and
any or all of said work or acquisition of property may be
done either within or outside of the boundary lines of
Baltimore City.

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 February 29, 1980.

CHAPTER 14
(House Bill 261)
AN ACT concerning