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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 254

eighty cents ($1.80)] $3 per capita of approved public
library service. Local tax sources shall include all
moneys appropriated to the Public Library Fund by the
counties or participating Municipalities.

Any county may provide an amount in excess of its
share of the cooperative program, but the State shall not
share in the excess.

(d)    Of the entire cost of the cooperative program
for approved public libraries for the State as a whole,
the State shall appropriate approximately [thirty per
centum (30%)] 40% of the cost of the minimum program.
The counties participating in the program, in the
aggregate, shall appropriate approximately [seventy per
centum (70%)] 60% of the entire cost throughout the
State. [For an individual county, the percentage of
local support for the cooperative program in which the
State shares in no event shall exceed eighty per centum
(80%) and the]THE percentage of State support in no event
shall be less than [twenty per centum (20%)] 20% of the
cost of the minimum program.

(e)   [The amount of a county's contribution to the
cooperative program is determined by the following
computation:

taxable wealth per capita for the county

-------------------------------------------- = X ratio

taxable wealth per capita for the State
Which is multiplied by 70; and this product is the
percentage of the total cost which is to be paid by the
county. The remaining percentage of the total cost is
the State's share and shall be paid by the State. The
total cost in any county is the product of its population
multiplied by the appropriate amount per capita as
provided in this section. Any county may provide an
amount in excess of its share of the minimum program, but
the State shall not share in the excess.]

(1) TO BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THE STATE
SHARE OF THE MINIMUM PROGRAM FOR CURRENT EXPENDITURES,
THE COUNTY GOVERNING BODY SHALL LEVY AN ANNUAL TAX
SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE AN AMOUNT OF REVENUE FOR PUBLIC
LIBRARY PURPOSES EQUAL TO THE PRODUCT OF THE WEALTH OF
THE COUNTY, AS DEFINED IN SUBSECTION (A) (3) OF THIS
SECTION, AND A UNIFORM PERCENTAGE DETERMINED FOR EACH
FISCAL YEAR AS FOLLOWS: THE SUM OF THE MINIMUM PROGRAM
FOR CURRENT EXPENDITURES TO BE SHARED FOR ALL THE
COUNTIES SHALL BE MULTIPLIED BY 0.60. THE PRODUCT SHALL
THEN BE DIVIDED BY THE SUM OF THE WEALTH OF ALL THE
COUNTIES; AND THE RESULTING QUOTIENT, EXPRESSED AS A
PERCENTAGE ROUNDED TO THE THIRD DECIMAL PLACE, SHALL BE
THE UNIFORM PERCENTAGE.