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TO ANY FUNDS THAT BALTIMORE CITY IS ELIGIBLE TO
RECEIVE UNDER SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS SECTION. IN
ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A STATE GRANT, THE LAND
TO BE ACQUIRED WITHIN BALTIMORE CITY SHALL BE RE-
VIEWED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTS AND PARKS
AND THE PARCEL OR PARCELS, INCLUDING THE COST
THEREOF, SHALL BE APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF PUB-
LIC WORKS. TITLE TO SUCH LAND SHALL BE IN THE NAME
OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE CITY,
AND THE STATE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
COSTS INVOLVED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OR MAINTE-
NANCE OF SUCH LAND.

357G.

(a) Any THE MARYLAND NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND
PLANNING COMMISSION OR ANY subdivision may apply to the
State Department of Forests and Parks for a grant from the total
funds appropriated by the General Assembly for local projects.
Municipal corporations OTHER THAN THE MARYLAND NA-
TIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION and
governmental agencies may apply by submitting local project appli-
cations through the subdivisions to the Department of Forests and
Parks.

(C) THE STATE SHALL PROVIDE TWENTY-FIVE PER-
CENT (25%) OF THE TOTAL PROJECT COST FOR EACH AP-
PROVED LOCAL ACQUISITION AND/OR DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT. IF FEDERAL FUNDS ARE NOT AVAILABLE BE-
CAUSE OF LACK OF FUNDS THE STATE SHALL PROVIDE
ADDITIONAL FUNDS, BUT NOT MORE THAN [FIFTY PER-
CENT (50%)] SEVENTY-FIVE (75%) OF THE TOTAL PROJ-
ECT COST.

(d) [Development projects submitted by municipal corporations
shall not be approved until seventy-five per cent (75%) of the funds
allocated to the county, including any municipal corporations there-
in, have been obligated for acquisition. This provision shall not
apply to Baltimore City.]

At least fifty per cent (50%) of the funds allocated to a county
annually, including any municipal corporation therein, shall be used
for acquisition projects and fifty per cent (50%) of the funds allo-
cated to a county annually, including any municipal corporation
therein, may be utilized for development projects. Twenty-five per
cent (25%) of the total funds allocated annually to a county, in-
cluding any municipal corporation located, therein, may be utilized
for development projects prior to obligating the funds for acquisi-
tion but the remaining twenty-five per cent (25%) of the total funds
allocated annually shall not be used for development projects until
fifty per cent (50%) of the funds allocated to the county have been
obligated for acquisition. This provision shall not apply to Baltimore
City.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved May 17, 1971.