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1568
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LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Ch. 510
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(I) TO GRANT TO THE AUTHORITY POWERS IN ANY
SUBSTANTIVE AREA NOT OTHERWISE GRANTED TO THE AUTHORITY BY OTHER
PUBLIC GENERAL OR PUBLIC LOCAL LAW;
(II) TO RESTRICT THE AUTHORITY FROM EXERCISING
ANY POWER GRANTED TO THE AUTHORITY BY OTHER PUBLIC GENERAL OR
PUBLIC LOCAL LAW OR OTHERWISE; NOR
(III) TO AUTHORIZE THE AUTHORITY OR ITS
OFFICERS TO ENGAGE IN ANY ACTIVITY WHICH IS BEYOND THEIR POWER
UNDER OTHER PUBLIC GENERAL LAW, PUBLIC LOCAL LAW, OR
OTHERWISE .; OR
(IV) TO PREEMPT OR SUPERSEDE THE REGULATORY
AUTHORITY OF ANY STATE DEPARTMENT OR AGENCY UNDER ANY PUBLIC
GENERAL LAW.
[(d)] (E) For purposes of this section, the phrase "housing
or housing project for persons of eligible income" means any
undertaking or project, or portion thereof, including lands,
buildings and improvements, real, mixed and personal properties
or interest therein that is planned, acquired, owned, developed,
constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved for
purposes of providing dwelling accommodations, a substantial
portion of which accommodations shall be for persons of eligible
income, and such streets, roads, sewer and waterlines and other
supporting public and private facilities intended for commercial,
educational, cultural, recreational, community or other civic
purposes as may be deemed necessary for sound community
development.
[(e)] (F) For purposes of this section, the phrase "persons
of eligible income" means persons who individually or as part of
a family unit lack sufficient income or assets (as determined by
the mayor of Baltimore City or his designee) to enable them,
without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and
sanitary dwellings without overcrowding.
8C.
(a) It is found and declared that there exists within
Prince George's County (1) a shortage of decent, safe, and
adequate housing, and (2) a number of economically depressed
areas and housing in need of rehabilitation. As a result, county
residents are forced to occupy overcrowded, congested and
deteriorated housing and live in depressed neighborhoods. These
conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate
expenditures of public funds for public health, safety and
welfare protection, and other public services and facilities.
The shortage of decent, safe, and adequate housing and the
revitalization of depressed neighborhoods and rehabilitation of
housing cannot be relieved wholly through the operation of
private enterprise. The construction and rehabilitation of
housing for Prince George's County residents, and the acquisition
and expenditure of public funds to produce such housing,
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