HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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streets, parking lots, and other facilities useful or
designed for use in connection with the operation of a
public use airport; and

(ii) All other appurtenances and equipment
useful or designed for use in the handling of air carrier
service, general aviation activities, and other related
activities open to the public.

266P.

Subject to the authority and powers of the Secretary of
Economic and Community Development set forth in the laws of
Maryland, the Authority may:

(1)  Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its
affairs and the conduct of its business;

(2)  Adopt an official seal and alter the same at
pleasure;

(3)  Maintain an office at places within the
State as it may designate;

(4)  Sue and be sued in its own name and plead
and be impleaded; service of process in any action shall be
made by service upon the manager of the Authority either in
hand or by leaving a copy of the process at the office of
the manager with some person having charge thereof;

(5)  Employ the assistants, agents, and other
employees as may be necessary or desirable for its purposes,
all of whom shall be in the classified service of the State;
to contract for and engage consultants; and to utilize the
services of other governmental agencies;

(6)  Accept from a federal agency loans or grants
for use in carrying out its purpose, and enter into
agreement with the agency respecting any loans or grants;

(7)  Request for its guidance a finding of the
planning board of the municipality or county or, if there is
no planning board, of the municipal or county officers of
the municipality or county in which the industrial project
is proposed to be located or of the regional planning board
of which such municipality or county is a member, as to the
expediency and advisability of such project;

(8)  Enter into agreements with prospective
mortgagees and mortgagors, for the purpose of planning,
designing, constructing, acquiring, altering, and financing
industrial projects;

(9)  Acquire, purchase, manage and operate, and
hold and dispose of real and personal property, take
assignments of rentals and leases, and make and enter into
all contracts, leases, agreements, and arrangements
necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties;