1986

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 707

Acquisition of property [in Baltimore City at Port
Armistead Park, and construction of a correctional complex
to provide a 640 bed medium security unit and a 250 bed
minimum security unit on the site, subject to the condition
that the State of Maryland shall obtain clear title to said
property on or before February 15, 1979, without any
restriction on its use for a 640 bed medium security unit
and a 250 bed minimum security unit on said property. Prior
to the expenditure of any funds for the purposes set forth
in this Section 1, (3), the Board of Public Works shall have
received evidence satisfactory to it that the foregoing
condition has been satisfied. If the Board of Public Works
receives such satisfactory evidence, it shall so certify and
the proceeds of the loan shall thereafter be expended in
accordance with the provisions of this Act, If such
satisfactory evidence is not received by the Board of Public
Works, the Board of Public Works shall revert the proceeds
of the loan to the Annuity Bond Fund] AND CONSTRUCTION OF
CORRECTIONAL MEDIUM SECURITY FACILITIES TO PROVIDE 800 BEDS,
SELECTION OF SITES SHALL BE MADE BY THE GOVERNOR, SUBJECT TO
APPROVAL BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY THROUGH THE ENACTMENT OF A
JOINT RESOLUTION.

(4) There is hereby levied and imposed an annual
State tax on all assessable property in the State in rate
and amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest
on the bonds as and when due and until paid in full, such
principal to be discharged within fifteen years of the date
of issue of the bonds.]

[SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 2
of this Act is contingent upon satisfaction of the condition
that the State of Maryland be able to obtain clear title, on
or before February 15, 1979, to the property in Baltimore
City at Fort Armistead Park, without any restriction on its
use for a correctional complex consisting of a 640 bed
medium security unit and a 250 bed minimum security unit on
said property. If that condition is not satisfied. Section
2 of this Act is null and void without the necessity of
further action by the General Assembly.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That chapter(s)

of the Acts of the General Assembly be repealed, amended, or
enacted to road as follows:

[SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER. ENACTED.. That the
provisions of this Act are not severable, and if any
provision of this Act is declared to be invalid by a court
of competent jurisdiction, or is otherwise precluded from
taking effect, then this Act shall be null and void in its
entirety.]

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1 [1978] 1979.