SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        1135

land State Comprehensive Plan for Community Mental Health Serv-
ices, or the Maryland State Mental Retardation Plan, and with the
provisions of Titles I and II of Public Law 88-164, Mental Retarda-
tion facilities and Mental Health Center Construction Act of 1963,
providing that in any grant the combination of Federal and State
funds available shall not exceed 67 percent of the costs of construc-
tion and equipment of such components unit, nor shall the total State
Grant exceed 50 percent of the total construction and equipment
costs of any such component.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby de-
clared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety and having been passed
by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 593
(Senate Bill 551)

AN ACT to add a new Section 2B to Article 31 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume), title "Debt--Pub-
lic," subtitle "In General," to follow immediately after Section 2
thereof, empowering the Board of Public Works to offer for sale
on a consolidated basis, various Certificates of Indebtedness, rep-
resenting two or more State Loans or Installments thereof, and
establishing and generally providing for the procedures required
to be employed in offering any such Certificates of Indebtedness
for sale on a consolidated basis.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new Section 2B be and it is hereby added to Article 81 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume), title
"Debt—Public," subtitle "In General," to follow immediately after
Section 2 thereof, and to read as follows:

(a) The Board of Public Works is hereby empowered, in author-
izing the sale of certificates of indebtedness representing two or
more State Loans or installments thereof, to provide that the vari-
ous certificates approved for sale shall be consolidated and sold as a
single issue of certificates of indebtedness for the purposes desig-
nated in the Enabling Acts authorizing the sale of the respective
certificates of indebtedness, without regard to whether any of said
Enabling Acts was enacted before or after the enactment of this
Section (or at the same session of the General Assembly at which
this Section is enacted). Provided, however, that the provisions of
this Section shall not apply to any State Loan or installment there-
of, if the Enabling Act authorizing such loan or installment thereof
specifically exempts by reference to Section and Article the loan or
installment to be issued thereunder from the provisions of this
Section.

2B.