WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 398

and engineers' fees: as a grant to the Montgomery County Association for Retarded
Citizens for the purpose of the planning, design, renovation, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, repair, and equipping of a building located on Norris Drive in Wheaton,
Maryland to be used as a community services center and as administration offices for
the Montgomery County Association for Retarded Citizens.

(4) An annual State tax is imposed 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. The principal shall be discharged within 15 years after the
date of issue of the bonds.

(5) Prior to the payment of any funds under the provisions of this Act for the
purposes set forth in Section 1(3) above, the Montgomery County Association for
Retarded Citizens shall provide at least an equal and matching fund of $200,000. No
part of an applicant's matching fund may be provided, either directly or indirectly, from
funds of the State, whether appropriated or unappropriated. However, the matching
fund may consist of federal block grant funds received by Montgomery County from the
Department of Economic and Community Development. No part of the fund may
consist of real property, in kind contributions, or funds expended prior to the effective
date of this Act. In case of any dispute as to what money or assets may qualify as
matching funds, the Board of Public Works shall determine the matter, and the Board's
decision is final. The Montgomery County Association for Retarded Citizens has until
June 1, [1989] 1991, to present evidence satisfactory to the Board of Public Works that
the matching fund will be provided. If satisfactory evidence is presented, the Board
shall certify this fact to the State Treasurer and the proceeds of the loan shall be
expended for the purposes provided in this Act. If this evidence is not presented by
June 1, [1989] 1991, the proceeds of the loan shall be applied to the purposes
authorized in § 8-129 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is an
emergency measure, is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health
and safety, has been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and shall take
effect from the date it is enacted.

Approved May 2, 1990.

CHAPTER 398
(House Bill 1481)

AN ACT concerning

Somerset County - Deputy Sheriffs - Fire Police

FOR the purpose of adding Somerset County to a list of certain other counties in which

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