SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       607

CHAPTER 264
(House Bill 591)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section 14 (c) of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume and
1966 Supplement), title "Unemployment Insurance Law," subtitle
"Administration Fund," to reaffirm that all fines collected under
Sections 17(a), 17(b) and 17(c) shall be paid into the Special
Administrative Expense Fund.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 14 (c) of Article 95A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1966 Replacement Volume and 1966 Supplement), title
"Unemployment Insurance Law," subtitle "Administration Fund,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, to
read as follows:

14.

(c) Special Administrative Expense Fund.—There is hereby
created in the State treasury a special fund to be known as the
Special Administrative Expense Fund. All interest, fines and
penalties collected under the provisions of this article, including
fines imposed under Sections 17(a), 17(b) and 17(c) of this article,
together with any voluntary contributions tendered as a contribution
to this fund, shall be paid into this fund. Said moneys shall not be
expended or available for expenditure in any manner which would
permit their substitution for (or a corresponding reduction in)
federal funds which would in the absence of said moneys be available
to finance expenditures for the administration of the Unemployment
Insurance Law. But nothing in this section shall prevent said moneys
from being used as a revolving fund, to cover expenditures (necessary
and proper under the law) for which federal funds have been duly
requested but not yet received, subject to the charging of such
expenditures against such funds when received. The moneys in this
fund shall be used by the Executive Director for reimbursement
of interest in contributions erroneously collected and the payment
of costs of administration which are found not to have been properly
and validly chargeable against federal grants (or other funds)
received for or in the Unemployment Insurance Administration Fund
on or after January 1, 1943. Such moneys shall be available either to
satisfy the obligations incurred by the Executive Director directly or
by requesting the State Treasurer to transfer the required amount
from the Special Administrative Expense Fund to the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Administration Fund. The State Treasurer shall
upon receipt of a written request of the Executive Director make any
such transfer. No expenditure of this fund or transfer herein pro-
vided shall be made unless and until the Executive Director by
resolution duly entered in his minutes finds that no other funds are
available or can properly be used to finance such expenditures. The
Executive Director shall order the transfer of such funds or the
payment of any such obligation and such funds shall be paid by
the State Treasurer on requisitions drawn by the Executive Director
directing the State Treasurer to issue his warrant therefor. Any
such warrant shall be drawn by the State Treasurer based upon bills
of particulars and vouchers certified by an officer or employee desig-