HARRY HUGHES, Governor                              3831

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 739

(House Bill 1656)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore City - Debts and Extensions of Credit

FOR the purpose of repealing providing a certain exception
to the requirement that certain debts created by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, certain credit
extended by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
and certain other acts of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore that involve the faith and credit of
Baltimore City be authorized by Acts of the General
Assembly; providing for debt limitation; clarifying
language; and submitting this amendment to the
qualified voters of the State of Maryland for their
adoption or rejection.

BY proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland

Article XI - City of Baltimore
Section 7

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, (Three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses concurring), That it be proposed that
section(s) of the Constitution of Maryland read(s) as
follows:

Article XI - City of Baltimore

7.

From and after the adoption of this Constitution, no
debt [(]except as hereinafter [excepted),] PROVIDED IN THIS
SECTION, shall be created by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore; nor shall the credit of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore be given, or loaned to, or in aid of
any individual, association, or corporation; nor shall the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore have the power to
involve the City of Baltimore in the construction of works
of internal improvement, nor in granting any aid thereto,
which shall involve the faith and credit of the city, nor
make any appropriation therefor, Unless [such] THE debt or