1270                            Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 780

of the powers and functions granted to the Commission, there shall
be levied annually against all the assessable property within the Re-
gional District by Montgomery and Prince George's counties, re-
spectively, a tax of three cents (30 on each one hundred dollars
($100.00) of assessable property within the Regional District. Each
of the counties is directed in each annual levy, except as hereinafter
provided, to levy the tax on all property in its county within the Re-
gional District, both real and personal, assessed for county tax pur-
poses. These taxes shall be levied and collected as county taxes
now are or may hereafter by law be levied and collected; and they
shall have the same priority rights, bear the same interest and pen-
alties, and in every respect be treated the same as county taxes. The
proceeds of the collection of such tax shall be paid to the Commis-
sion and shall constitute the administrative fund of the Commis-
sion. The expenditures of the Commission for operating or ad-
ministrative purposes shall be within the amount of such fund, to-
gether with such additional funds as may be appropriated or con-
tributed for such purposes by the said counties or by the General
Assembly of Maryland or by the United States or by private donors.

(b)  Possible invalidity.—In the event that by decree of court the
provisions of sub-section (a) of this section for a three cent (3¢)
tax should be permanently enjoined or otherwise invalidated, so that
the County Council of Montgomery County and the County Com-
missioners of Prince George's County can no longer levy and collect
the three cent (3¢) tax as provided for in said sub-section, then and
thenceforth the repeal of Section 5 of Chapter 448 of the Laws of
the General Assembly of Maryland of 1927, by Chapter 714 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1939, and by Chapter 992 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1943, shall terminate; and said
repeal shall then and thenceforth be treated as no longer in effect,
and then and thenceforth said Section 5 of Chapter 448 of the Acts of
1927 shall be deemed reenacted and in full force and effect.

(c)  Computation of tax; Unexpended Balances.—At least thirty
(30) days prior to the ends of the fiscal years of Montgomery and
Prince George's counties, respectively, the Commission shall certify
and submit to the appropriate fiscal officers of said counties the Un-
expended Balances in the hands of the Commission from monies re-
ceived by the Commission from the administrative taxes theretofore
levied by the counties, respectively, as hereinabove provided. If
the Unexpended Balance with respect to either county shall exceed
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), that county
if it so elects, may deduct said excess from its estimate of the amount
of money which will be raised in the next succeeding fiscal year by
the levy of the administrative tax; and the county in such fiscal year,
may levy the tax at a rate which the county estimates will produce
an amount equal to the difference so arrived at, which amount will
then be the amount which the county is obligated to pay the Com-
mission for administration in such fiscal year pursuant to this sec-
tion.

(d)  Procedure in Montgomery County.—In BOTH COUNTIES.
THE Montgomery County the County Council is AND THE BOARD
OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUN-
TY ARE authorized and directed to fix the amount of the adminis-
trative tax authorized in this section on or before the 20th day of