HOUSE BILL 403

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Unofficial Copy 2002 Regular Session
L2 21r0272

By: Montgomery County Delegation

Introduced and read first time: January 28, 2002
Assigned to: Commerce and Government Matters

Committee Report: Favorable

House action: Adopted

Read second time: March 5, 2002

CHAPTER 589

1 AN ACT concerning

2 Montgomery County - Eminent Domain - Licensed and Certified Real Estate

3 Appraisers

4 MC 202-02

5 FOR the purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution to authorize the

6 Montgomery County Council to appoint a licensed and certified real estate

7 appraiser to estimate the fair market value of property situated in the county

8 subject to immediate taking under existing law; and submitting this

9 amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for their adoption or

10 rejection.

11 BY proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland

12 Article III - Legislative Department

13 Section 40A

14 SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

15 MARYLAND, (Three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses

16 concurring), That it be proposed that the Constitution of Maryland read as follows:

17 Article III - Legislative Department

18 40A.

19 The General Assembly shall enact no law authorizing private property to be

20 taken for public use without just compensation, to be agreed upon between the

21 parties, or awarded by a jury, being first paid or tendered to the party entitled to such

22 compensation, but where such property is situated in Baltimore City and is desired by