WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 553

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(e) In Charles, St. Mary's, SOMERSET, Washington, Wicomico, and Worcester
Counties, the county council or county commissioners, as the case may be, may provide
by resolution for the inclusion, in their respective county, of members of volunteer fire
companies and rescue squads as provided in subsection (a) of this section.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1990.

Approved May 29, 1990.

CHAPTER 553
(House Bill 264)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - National Center for Pathological Gambling, Inc.

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $200,000
$100,000 the proceeds to be used as a grant to the National Center for
Pathological Gambling, Inc. for the renovation of the treatment facilities located
at 924 and 926 E. Baltimore Street in Baltimore City subject to the requirement
that the National Center for Pathological Gambling, Inc. provide at least an equal
and matching fund of a certain kind for the same purpose by a certain date; and
providing generally for the issue and sale of bonds evidencing the loan.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

(1) The Board of Public Works may borrow money and incur indebtedness on
behalf of the State of Maryland through a State loan to be known as the National
Center for Pathological Gambling, Inc. Loan of 1990 in the total principal amount of
$200,000 $100,000. This loan shall be evidenced by the issuance, sale, and delivery of
State general obligation bonds authorized by a resolution of the Board of Public Works
and issued, sold, and delivered in accordance with §§ 8-117 through 8-124 of the State
Finance and Procurement Article and Article 31, § 22 of the Code.

(2) The bonds to evidence this loan or installments of this loan may be sold as a
single issue, or may be consolidated and sold as part of a single issue of bonds under §
8-122 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.

(3) The cash proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be paid to the Treasurer and
first shall be applied to the payment of the expenses of issuing, selling, and delivering
the bonds, unless funds for this purpose are otherwise provided, and then shall be
credited on the books of the Comptroller and expended, on approval by the Board of
Public Works, for the following public purposes, including any applicable architects'
and engineers' fees: as a grant to the National Center for Pathological Gambling, Inc.

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