§ 32-9. 1910 change in eastern boundary section.

(a) In general.

With the approval of the Topographical Survey Commission, that part of the general plan of streets, adopted by § 32-1 of this article, for the territory annexed to the City of Baltimore by the Act of 1888, Chapter 98, which relates to the location and width of Harford Road, from North Avenue to the eastern boundary of Baltimore City, is hereby altered and amended by substituting for the above-mentioned portion of the aforesaid general plan of streets, the location and width of Harford Road indicated on the plat which is attached to this ordinance as a part thereof, and from and after April 25,1910, the said amendment shall have the same validity and effect as though it had been a part of the abovementioned general plan of streets at the time of its adoption by the sections hereinbefore mentioned.

(b) Reservation for United Railways.

(1) Provided, however, that the United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore shall be allowed to maintain any structures or buildings it may now own or lease upon the bed of the Harford Road as intended to be opened and widened as indicated on the plat, which is made part of this ordinance, between the north side of the lane leading to Holy Cross Cemetery and a point 223 feet, more or less, northwardly therefrom, and also the conduits in the bed of said Harford Road, between the north side of North Avenue and said point 223 feet, more or less, northwardly from the aforesaid lane ... until such time as said structures, buildings or conduits, or any of them, shall be voluntarily razed, torn down, destroyed or removed by the owner or owners thereof, after which time, however, any new building or buildings on said property shall conform to the building line as shown on said plat.

(2) The privilege hereby reserved to the United Railways and Electric Company not to continue, however, as to the frame car house of said company within the limits abovementioned longer than 1 year after said Harford Road shall have been graded, curbed, and macadamized, after which time the part of said building last mentioned which encroaches upon the said limits shall be removed promptly upon notice from the Mayor of Baltimore City.

Whenever the property embraced within the lines of said Harford Road, as indicated on the plat attached to this ordinance, shall have been acquired by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for the purpose of opening and widening said road, then all property owned by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore within said lines, shall thereafter be taken to constitute said highway.