396 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 123

litical subdivisions, and by State-aided, owned, controlled, or managed
public or quasi-public institutions and agencies, hereinafter called
"consuming institutions", as may be feasible; but (EXCEPT AS
HEREIN OTHERWISE PROVIDED in equipping the penal and
reformatory institutions with plants, machinery, and necessaries, the
Department of Correction shall not utilize monies from the so-called
State Use Industries Fund for any of the permanent, semi-perma-
nent, or long-time construction projects or assets which are generally
included in the phrase "capital" assets, expenditures, or projects.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF THE PRECEDING
SENTENCE, THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION MAY
ESTABLISH AND UTILIZE A REVOLVING FUND WHICH MAY
NOT AT ANY TIME CONTAIN A SUM OF MONEY GREATER
THAN FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($500, 000);
THE REVOLVING FUND MAY BE USED FOR THE PURCHASE
OF CAPITAL ASSETS AND ALSO FOR GENERAL OPERATING
EXPENSES, AND AN ACCURATE DETAILED STATEMENT
SHALL BE MADE AND TRANSMITTED TO THE COMPTROL-
LER FROM TIME TO TIME OF ALL RECEIPTS AND DIS-
BURSEMENTS FROM THIS REVOLVING FUND. All of the con-
suming institutions shall purchase their requirements of the same
from the Department of Correction exclusively except products such
as the Department of Correction in writing notifies the State Pur
chasing Bureau DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND PROCURE-
MENT cannot be furnished by the penal or reformatory institutions
of the State, or such as their perishable nature may render imprac-
ticable for such institutions to furnish; provided, however, that this
requirement to purchase their said needs of the Department of Cor-
rection does not apply to any State-aided, managed, or controlled
public or semi-public institution which does not receive at least fifty
per cent of the funds for its upkeep (exclusive of receipts from its
patrons) from the State of Maryland and/or some political subdivi-
sion or subdivisions thereof. It is the duty of the Department of Cor-
rection in the exercise of the powers hereinbefore contained to diver-
sify its industries in such a manner as not to work a hardship on any
one particular free industry.

(d) The Department of Correction may publish and distribute to
the Department of Budget and Procurement a schedule of prices for
the purchase of all such products, provided that such prices may not
exceed the wholesale market (or equivalent) rates for similar prod-
ucts manufactured, produced, or mined elsewhere in the State of
Maryland. The Department of Correction also may consult and co-
operate with the Department of Budget and Procurement and the
representatives of such consuming institutions, in establishing certain
standards of production, and with such Department and representa-
tives shall determine the style, design, and quality of the products of
the producing institutions. Any difference of opinion on prices,
standards, styles, design, and quality of such product or products
which may arise between the Department of Correction and a repre-
sentative of such Department or of any particular consuming in-
stitution, agency, or subdivision of the State shall be forthwith sub-
mitted for immediate arbitration to a representative of the Depart-
ment OF CORRECTION, a representative of the Department of
Budget and Procurement, and a representative of the State Comp-
troller or to a representative of the Department OF CORRECTION,
of the particular consuming institution or agency or subdivision,