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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="12-807" title_number="12" title_name="Local Development Authorities and Resources" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Baltimore County -- West Baltimore County Redevelopment Authority">
  <level label="a">
    <text>For the public purposes described under § 12–803 of this subtitle and subject to local law and the provisions of this subtitle, the Authority may, within West Baltimore County:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>acquire, purchase, or otherwise obtain, hold, and use any property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>lease as a lessee any property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>lease as lessor any property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein, at any time acquired by the Authority;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>mortgage or otherwise pledge or encumber any property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein, of the Authority; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>sell, transfer, or convey any property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein, acquired by the Authority at any time.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Authority may accept grants from, make loans to, and enter into contracts with any federal, State, or local agency or any private entity or party.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Authority may establish, impose, and collect tolls, rates, rentals, fees, and charges relating to the Authority’s undertakings and property.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The budgetary and financial procedures of the Authority shall be established by local law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>No provisions of the charter of the county or other local law regarding the duties, powers, or organization of the Authority apply to the Authority unless the county expressly provides by local law that the charter provision or other local law applies to the Authority.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Subject to public general law and local law, the Authority has all other powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of the Authority.</text>
  </level>
</section>
