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2060 LAWS OF MARYLAND Ch. 650
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Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments
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MARYLAND FOOD CENTER AUTHORITY
410.
This subtitle may be cited as "The Maryland Food CENTER
Authority Act."
411.
The General Assembly of Maryland makes the following
declarations as a statement of its legislative intent in the
enactment of this subtitle:
(1) The marketing of food is a matter of public
interest; the maintenance of wholesale market places is and has
always been recognized as a public function; the vast quantities
of food and related food products brought annually from all parts
of the United States into the wholesale markets in the Greater
Baltimore Region are obliged to pass through market facilities
which are obsolete and inadequate to meet present needs; the
scattered locations and difficulty of access with respect to such
markets constitute an economic loss; the obsolescence of these
markets is responsible for much of the high cost of food handling
and for the deterioration which takes place both within the
wholesale markets and between the markets and the consumer's
doorstep; modern consolidated facilities would result in an
annual saving; there is need for a consolidated wholesale food
market within the Greater Baltimore Region; and in spite of this
great need, efforts on the part of the State of Maryland, the
City of Baltimore, the wholesale food trade, the growers, and the
transportation industry have failed to bring about the creation
of a satisfactory consolidation of wholesale markets.
(2) The construction, operation, and maintenance of
wholesale markets, and in particular a consolidated market for
the Greater Baltimore Region, as defined herein, would require
the expenditure of a large sum of money; the financial systems of
the political subdivisions of the Greater Baltimore Region are
not designed to handle projects of this type on a nonprofit,
self-liquidating basis, and the best method of distributing
responsibility for this problem and of achieving the creation of
a market is to create and empower a market authority as a public
corporation, the function of which would be to acquire land for
and to construct and operate such a market; and to aid and assist
by the making of loans and otherwise those persons engaged in the
wholesale food industry who wish to locate in such market.
(3) The public health and safety of the citizens of
the State of Maryland are adversely affected by the unsafe,
obsolete, and unsanitary conditions of existing food markets.
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