PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 519

circumstances; prohibiting land or property from being taken by exercising the
power of eminent domain under the provisions of this Act without just
compensation being first paid to the party entitled to the compensation; declaring
that all land or property taken under the provisions of this Act are needed or taken
for a public use or a public benefit; requiring that a certain finding or determination
be made before the acquisition of any single family or multiple family dwelling unit,
or structure, is taken under the provisions of this Act; requiring the legislative body
of a municipal corporation to adopt an ordinance for each acquisition made under
the provisions of this Act; and generally relating to the authority of municipal
corporations to exercise the power of eminent domain for development or
redevelopment.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 23A - Corporations - Municipal
Section 2(b)(24)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume)

BY adding to

Article 23A - Corporations - Municipal

Section 2(b)(37)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 23A - Corporations - Municipal

(b) In addition to, but not in substitution of, the powers which have been, or may
hereafter be, granted to it, such legislative body also shall have the following express
ordinance-making powers:

(24) To acquire by conveyance, purchase or condemnation real or leasehold
property needed for any public purpose; to erect buildings thereon for the benefit of the
municipality; and to sell at public or private sale after twenty days' public notice and to
convey to the purchaser or purchasers thereof any real or leasehold property belonging to
the municipality when such legislative body determines that the same is no longer needed
for any public use.

To take by gift, grant, bequest, or devise and to hold real and personal property
absolutely or in trust for parks or gardens, or for the erection of statues, monuments,
buildings or structures, or for any public use, upon such terms and conditions as may be
prescribed by the grantor or donor, and accepted by the municipality; to provide for the
proper administration of the same; and to convey the same when such legislative body
determines that it is no longer needed for public purposes, subject to the terms and
conditions of the original grant.

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