HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               1797

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 52A - Juvenile Services

Section 20 (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 52A - Juvenile Services

20.

(c) The funding of any youth services bureau shall be
a shared responsibility of the State and of local
governments. The annual budget of each eligible youth
services bureau shall be submitted to the State Department
of Juvenile Services JUVENILE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION for
review and approval at such time as Department of Juvenile
Services JUVENILE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION may specify. In
the annual budget of the State Department—of Juvenile
Services JUVENILE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION there shall be a
list of eligible youth services bureau programs with the
estimated amount of State funds allocated to each. All
eligible youth services bureau programs shall be 75 percent
State funded from the general appropriations budget. State
funds for the support of the youth services bureau shall be
paid directly , AT THE OPTION OF THE LOCAL GOVERNING BODIES.
EITHER DIRECTLY TO THE PRIVATE SPONSOR OF THE YOUTH SERVICES
BUREAU OR to the [local governing bodies which provide
the matching funds for the] youth services [bureaus
within its jurisdiction] BUREAU. Before such funds are
paid, the fiscal officer of the local jurisdiction WHERE THE
YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU IS LOCATED shall provide by certified
letter documentation of the source of the 25 percent local
funds.

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

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 661
(House Bill 1658)
AN ACT concerning

   Cecil County, Kent County, and Queen Anne's County

and Kent County — Volunteer Fire Companies (Signal

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