652                              Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 271

"Places of Reformation and Punishment," subheading "Depart-
ment of Correction," CORRECTIONAL SERVICES," and to add
new Sections 6A and 6B to Article 30 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume), title "Deaf, Mute or Blind,"
subtitle "Workshop and School for Blind," to follow immediately
after Section 6 thereof, to provide that state institutions and
agencies shall purchase products and/or services from the Work-
shop for the Blind, to create a Pricing Committee to set and
adjust the price of products sold by the Workshop, and to make
certain corrections in the references therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 681(c) of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1967 Replacement Volume), title "Crimes and Punishments,"
subtitle "Places of Reformation and Punishment," subheading "De-
partment of Correction," CORRECTIONAL SERVICES," be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and that new
Sections 6A and 6B be and they are hereby added to Article 30 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement Volume), title
"Deaf, Mute or Blind," subtitle "Workshop and School for Blind,"
to follow immediately after Section 6 thereof, all to read as follows:

681.

(c) The Department of [Correction] Correctional Services as
funds are made available may equip the penal and reformatory in-
stitutions of the State of Maryland under its jurisdiction, herein-
after called "producing institutions," with such plants, machinery,
and necessaries as will permit them adequately to supply all goods,
wares, merchandise, and produce required to be purchased by the
needs of the State, its political 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] Correctional Services
shall not utilize monies from the so-called State-Use Industries Fund
for any of the permanent, semipermanent, or long-time construction
projects or assets which are generally included in the phrase "capi-
tal" assets, expenditures, or projects. Notwithstanding the provi-
sions of the preceding sentence, the Department of [Correction]
Correctional Services 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 Comptroller from time to time of all
receipts and disbursements from this revolving fund. All of the
consuming institutions shall purchase their requirements of the same
from the Department of [Correction] Correctional Services exclu-
sively, except as provided by Section 6A of Article 30 of the Anno-
tated Code, and such products [such] as the Department of [Cor-
rection] Correctional Services and the Maryland Workshop for the
Blind in writing [notifies] notify the Department of Budget and
Procurement cannot be furnished by the penal or reformatory insti-
tutions of the State [,] or the Maryland Workshop for the Blind,
or such as their perishable nature may render impracticable for