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tion, and belief. The term "county agency" shall include
any office, department, board, bureau, agency, or institution
receiving any appropriation from county funds, whether or
not the officers thereof be elected or appointed or whether
they be County or State officers. The Board of County Com-
missioners shall also submit a detailed and itemized esti-
mate of the amounts for the operation of its office as well
as for other expenditures to be made at the direction of said
Board.

466A Before October 1st in each year, the County
Commissioners shall prepare a proposed budget, containing
the following items:

(a) A fully itemized and detailed statement, in compara-
tive form, of the aforesaid itemized amounts requested by
each county agency, the amounts appropriated for the cur-
rent fiscal year for each such agency, and the appropriation
recommended for each such agency by the County Commis-
sioners for the ensuing year.

(b) A detailed statement showing all anticipated county
receipts, the estimated assessable basis, together with the
estimated tax rate or rates required by the recommended
appropriations. This statement should be in comparative
form showing estimated receipts for the current year, the
taxable basis, and the current rate.

(c) A list of payments to be made upon principal and in-
terest of outstanding debts of Harford County during the
ensuing fiscal year.

(d) A list of all other anticipated expenses, including a
proper allowance for a contingent fund, not exceeding
125, 000. 00 per year.

(e) The proposed budget may properly include appropria-
tions for the purpose of purchasing, improving, or erecting
buildings or constructing capital improvements for the pur-
pose of conducting duly authorized county functions, or for
the purpose of creating a fund for capital improvements
beyond the current year.

466B. In each year the County Commissioners prior to
the adoption of the budget shall, after public notice, hold at
least one public hearing on the proposed budget. Public
notice of the time and place of said hearing shall be given
by at least one week's notice in at least two newspapers of
general circulation in Harford County. From October 1st
until November 1st in each year at least one copy of such
proposed budget shall be available for public inspection at