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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 119

1975   Fiscal Year Funds Reserved for

1976 Operations                                                                       76,454,586

1976   Estimated Revenues (All Funds)                                       3,050,056,713

3,126,511,299

Estimated Total Available

Deduct:

Total 1976 Appropriations                       3,115,735,279

Less: Estimated Reversions                            14,000,000 3,101,735,279

Estimated Funds Reserved for Budget

Operations, July 1, 1976                                                               24,776,020*

Includes $784,925 of General Fund Surplus and
$23,991,095 of Undistributed Dedicated Special Fund
Revenue of which $23,87 2,152 is attributed to
Department of Transportation and, if realized, will
be used in lieu of bond proceeds.

SECTION 9. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That
immediately following the close of each fiscal year, the
Secretary of the Budget and Fiscal Planning- shall
determine the total number of State positions that are
authorized as of the last day of the fiscal year.
Authorized positions shall include all budget positions
as shown in the personnel detail of the annual budget for
the ensuing fiscal year including non—budgeted programs,
the Mass Transit Administration, the University of
Maryland self—supported activities, and the State—Use
Industries. The Board of Public Works, in exercising its
authority to create additional positions pursuant to Sec.
16B of Article 78A, may authorize, during any fiscal
year, up to five hundred (500) positions in excess of the
total number of authorized State positions as determined
by the secretary of Budget and Fiscal Planning on. the
last day of any fiscal year. Provided, however, that if
the imposition of this ceiling causes undue hardship in
any particular department, agency, board, or commission,
the Board of Public Works may authorize additional
positions for such department, agency, board,- or
commission, upon the elimination of an equal number, of
authorized positions in another department, agency, board
or commission, and said action shall be exempt from the
aforementioned ceiling of five hundred (500). And that
the aforementioned ceiling of five hundred (500) does not
apply with respect to any positions created by the Board
of Public Works during fiscal year 1976 which are fully
funded by the federal government under the Federal