BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

2855

(Senate Bill 897)

AN ACT concerning

Funding of Public Libraries

FOR the purpose of altering the amount of funding provided
for public library systems by the State and county
governments.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Education
Section 23-403(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ____ of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1978)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland

(as enacted by Chapter____of the Acts of the General

Assembly of 1978) be repealed, amended, or enacted to read
as follows:

Article - Education

23-403.

(b) (1) Each year, each county public library
system that participates in the Minimum Library Program
shall be provided [$4] $5 for each resident of the county,
to be used for operating and capital expenses. The State
shall share in this amount.

(2) Any county may provide an amount greater
than its share under the cooperative program, but the State
may not share in the excess.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978 1979.

Approved May 29, 1978.

CHAPTER 989
(Senate Bill 909)
AN ACT concerning

Well Drilling - Regulation
FOR the purpose of confining authority with regard to the