2024

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 559

7.

That, in addition, and as the secondary source of
payment, there shall be and is hereby levied and imposed an
annual State tax on each one hundred dollars of assessable
property at a rate to be determined in the following manner:
on or before May 1, 1970, and on or before May 1 in each
year thereafter, the Board of Public Works shall certify to
the governing bodies of each of the counties and of
Baltimore City the rate of State tax on each one hundred
dollars of assessable property necessary to produce revenue
to meet all interest and principal, if any, which will be
payable to the close of the next ensuing taxable year on all
bonds or Certificates of Indebtedness theretofore issued or
theretofore authorized by resolution of the Board of Public
Works to be issued, under the provisions of this Act, and
the governing bodies of each of the counties and Baltimore
City shall forthwith levy and collect such tax at such rate.

Provided, however, that the levy or levies provided for
in this section shall not be made and the said tax or taxes
shall not be collected in any year if before May 1 of the
preceding year or before May 1 of any succeeding year
thereafter, the Board of Public Works shall ascertain as a
fact upon a certified statement rendered to such Board by
the State Comptroller that all payments of principal and
interest due and payable in that preceding year on the bonds
or Certificates of Indebtedness issued pursuant to this Act
have been paid and that funds sufficient to meet all
payments of principal and interest due and payable on such
bonds in the fiscal year for which the tax imposed by this
section is to be levied have been received and set aside for
that purpose in the Annuity Bond Fund, from the proceeds of
the tax imposed under provisions of Section 278A of Article
81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland as set forth in Section
10 of this Act. Upon the ascertainment of such fact by the
Board of Public Works, the Governor shall, by proclamation
issued pursuant to resolution of the Board of Public Works,
publicly declare that the State taxes provided for in this
section shall not be levied or collected in the said taxable
year.

Provided, further, however, that the levy or levies
provided under this section to be made in any year shall be
made only in part, and the said tax or taxes shall be
collected only in part, if before May 1 of the preceding
year, or before May 1 of any succeeding year thereafter, the
Board of Public Works shall ascertain as a fact upon a
certified statement rendered to such Board by the State
Comptroller that part but not all of the payments of
principal and interest due and payable in that preceding
year on the bonds or Certificates of Indebtedness issued
pursuant to this Act have been paid, or that part but not
all of the funds required to meet all payments of principal
and interest due on such bonds or Certificates of
Indebtedness in that fiscal year for which the tax imposed