SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       683

The petition in the first instance shall be directed to the State
Board of Health and, upon the approval of the plans by the State
Board of Health, the said Board of Health shall promptly report
the petition to the Board of Public Works, together with its report
that the project has been approved both by the Surgeon General of
the United States or other lawful Federal authority under the pro-
visions of said Subchapter IV, as amended from time to time, and
also by the State Department of Health, and that the Board of
Public Works should make available the necessary matching funds
as provided hereunder. For projects in which only State funds
are to be used, the said Board of Health shall promptly report the
petition to the Board of Public Works, together with its report that
the project has been approved by the State Department of Health,
and that the Board of Public Works should make available the neces-
sary funds as provided hereunder.

(d) The Board of Public Works shall make allocations from
moneys available under this Act as follows:

(1)    To every nursing home receiving such a Federal grant a
supplementary sum toward the cost of the same project, subject to
the limitation that the State and Federal grants combined shall
not exceed 66⅔% of the total construction and equipment costs
of any nursing home; or

(2)    To every nursing home eligible for grants under this Act,
when Federal funds are not available, subject to the limitations
cited in subsection (c) of this section.

The Board shall certify the allocation of State funds to the
Treasurer of the State, and the Treasurer shall make them avail-
able to the nursing home when needed for the construction of the
project.

[(a)] (e) The Board of Public Works is authorized, in its
discretion, to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for re-
ceiving such petitions from public and other nonprofit nursing
homes in this State and for the consideration of petitions and
disbursing of the funds to the petitioning public and other non-
profit nursing homes, within the spirit and intent of this Act.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That, until all of the inter-
est on and principals of any Certificates issued under this Act
have been paid in full, there is hereby levied and imposed an
annual State tax on each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of assess-
able property at the rate to be determined in the following man-
ner: On or before May 1, 1969, and on or before May 1st of each
fiscal year thereafter, the Board of Public Works shall certify
to the governing bodies of each of the Counties and of Baltimore
City the rate of State tax on each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)
of assessable property necessary to produce revenue to meet all
interest and principal which will be payable to the close of the
next ensuing fiscal year on all Certificates theretofore issued [on]
or therefore authorized by resolution of the Board of Public Works
to be issued, and the governing bodies of each of the Counties and
Baltimore City shall forthwith levy and collect such a tax at such
a rate.

All matters committed by this Act to the discretion of the Board
of Public Works shall be determined by a majority of said Board.