Ch. 220

1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

and may construct and lay any part of its line or lines underground or any route for which
it is authorized to construct such lines in whole or in part, above ground, and the
corporation may acquire by condemnation any property or right whatsoever necessary for
its purposes in its discretion, either in fee simple or the use thereof in fee simple, or for
a less estate, in the manner set forth in Title 12 of the Real Property Article of the Code;
provided, however, that all corporations incorporated, or to be incorporated by virtue of
said § 28, class thirteen, (Code of 1904) and all corporations heretofore or hereafter
incorporated under the provisions of the Corporation Law of 1908 OR OTHER
TELEPHONE COMPANIES THAT OWN LINES AND PROVIDE LOCAL EXCHANGE OR
INTEREXCHANGE SERVICE IN THIS STATE WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PUBLIC
SERVICE COMMISSION, shall obtain the assent and approval of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore City, before using the streets or highways of Baltimore City, either
the surface or the ground beneath the same. The provisions of this proviso, however, do
not apply to those corporations now in practical operation and which have laid or
constructed their lines, pipes, mains or other structures, or any part thereof in the City of
Baltimore, except as to the use and occupancy by them of new and additional streets and
highways in the City of Baltimore by their lines, pipes, mains or other structures.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the power of eminent domain
newly granted by this Act to certain telephone companies who have not previously been granted
the power of eminent domain is limited to the acquisition of property to construct, lay, or
maintain lines and does not include the acquisition of property for communications towers or
buildings.

SECTION 2. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 1993.

Approved May 11, 1993.

CHAPTER 220
(Senate Bill 213)

AN ACT concerning

Dorchester County - Advertising of County Expenditures           

FOR the purpose of repealing a requirement that the County Commissioners of
Dorchester County publish certain information relating to County expenditures
every 3 months; conforming the publication requirement and the requirerment that
certain information be available for public inspection in a certain manner to a
provision generally applicable to Commissioner counties; and making stylistic
changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
The Public Local Laws of Dorchester County
Section 10-21
Article 10 - Public Local Laws of Maryland

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