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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 857

budgetary procedure of the Commission. Except as
hereinafter provided, the budget programs and procedures
heretofore followed by the Commission are ratified and
confirmed and approved for use by the Commission
hereafter, together with such improvements therein as, in
the discretion of the Commission, be deemed necessary or
appropriate in the public interest.

(1)    For each fiscal year, beginning on July
1 and ending on June 30 of the subsequent year, the
Commission shall prepare an annual capital and operating
budget which shall contain, separately for each county
where items are so allocable for which a tax is levied,
the proposed expenditures and estimates of revenue
anticipated. The proposed budget shall be established as
hereinafter set forth. The Commission's budget shall
include for each county within the regional district a
complete planning work program including a schedule for
the production of all plans and amendments, hereinafter
called the planning schedule of the Commission. The
budget shall contain items allocable to both counties
including provisions for the operation of the departments
of the Commission established pursuant to law and the
regional planning program. The budget shall also contain
a schedule of recreation activities and programs for
Prince George's County in accordance with §[85, 43A (g),
as amended] 5—207.

(2)    The Commission shall submit the proposed
budget on or before January [1, 1973 and on or before
January 1] 15 of each [succeeding] year [thereafter] to
the county executives of Montgomery and Prince George's
counties.

(3)    In Montgomery County the county
executive shall transmit the proposed budget to the
County Council, together with his recommendations
[thereon], on or before [February 15, 1973 and on or
before February 15] MARCH 1 of each [succeeding fiscal]
year. In Prince George's County, the county executive
shall transmit the proposed budget to the County Council,
together with his recommendations [thereon], on or before
[April 1, 1973 and on or before] April 1 of each
[succeeding fiscal] year.

(4)    Each county council shall, upon public
notice, hold a public hearing on the proposed budget of
the Commission commencing not earlier than [twenty—one]
21 days following receipt thereof from the county
executive. Thereafter, on or before May [1] 15 of each
[succeeding] year[,] in Montgomery County, and on or
before May 10 of each [succeeding fiscal] year in Prince
George's County, each county council shall approve that
portion of the budget allocated to its county, which may
be altered as hereinafter provided, and establish tax
levies in such amounts as each county council shall
determine to be necessary to finance that portion of the
budget allocated to its county, subject to the