MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 22, 1975.

AN ACT concerning

CHAPTER 439
(House Bill 656)

Program Open Space

FOR the purpose of permitting, under certain conditions,
the use of certain Program Open Space funds for
purposes of recreation and parks master plans.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article — Natural Resources
Section 5-905(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 5-905(c) of Article - Natural
Resources, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1974 Volume
and 1974 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article — Natural Resources

5-905.

(c)(1) Except in Baltimore City, at least one
half of a local governing body's annual apportionment
shall be used for acquisition projects. Local matching
funds are not required for acquisition projects. If the
local governing body is unable to obtain federal funds
pursuant to § 5—906 of this subtitle, for an approved
local acquisition project, the total cost of the project
shall be defrayed out of the local governing body's
annual apportionment of state funds for open space. In
Baltimore City any portion of the annual apportionment
may be used either for acquisition or development.