Ch. 604 LAWS OF MARYLAND

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 County Executive and County Council of
Baltimore County shall provide at least an equal and matching fund of $50,000. No part
of an applicant's matching fund may be provided, either directly or indirectly, from
funds of the State, whether appropriated or unappropriated. 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 County Executive and County Council of Baltimore County have
until June 1, 1992, 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, 1992, the proceeds of the loan shall be applied to the purposes authorized in §
8-129 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.

(6) (a) The Balestone Manor in Baltimore County shall grant and convey to
the Maryland Historical Trust a perpetual preservation easement to the extent of its
interest:

(i) On the land or such portion of the land acceptable to the Trust;
and

(ii) On the exterior, where appropriate, of the historic structures.

(b) The easement must be in form and substance acceptable to the Trust
and the extent of the interest to be encumbered must be acceptable to the Trust.

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

Approved May 29, 1990.

CHAPTER 604
(House Bill 815)

AN ACT concerning

Crimes - Child Abuse - Penalty

FOR the purpose of reversing the holding holdings of the Maryland Court of Appeals in
the ease cases of Nightingale v. State (312 Md. 699, 542 A2d 373, 1988) (1988))
and White v. State (filed February 28, 1990) by providing that if a conviction is
entered against an individual for murder, rape, sexual offense, any sex crime, or

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