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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 197

CHAPTER 197
(House Bill 156)

AN ACT concerning

State Aid for Police Protection Fund — Payments
to Municipalities

FOR the purpose of providing that any payment from the
State Aid for Police Protection Fund which is
withheld by the Superintendent of the Maryland State
Police from a municipality for noncompliance with
the minimum standards of police qualifications shall
be forfeited, and the municipality may not make a
claim for the money; and correcting language.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

Article 15A — Budget and Fiscal Planning

Section 39

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1968 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 39 of Article 15A - Budget and
Fiscal Planning, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows;

Article 15A — Budget and Fiscal Planning

39.

The Superintendent of the [Department of] Maryland
State Police shall administer the State Aid for Police
Protection Fund. He shall certify to the Comptroller
and to the subdivisions the amount of payments to the
subdivisions, and the amounts to be distributed by the
subdivisions to the qualifying municipalities. He shall
make such regulations and require such reports as are
necessary to certify [said] THE amounts. In
administering the fund, he shall make a continuing effort
to establish standards of police protection adequate to
the various local situations, and shall report
periodically to the General Assembly on progress in
establishing and meeting (such] THOSE standards. In
determining qualification under § 37 (a) (7), the minimum