2596

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 751

municipalities and the City of Baltimore. No grant of
financial assistance shall be made until such grant has been
finally ratified and approved by the Board of Public Works
which shall certify the allocation of State funds to the
Treasurer of the State who shall make them available to the
County or municipality or the City of Baltimore when needed
for projects in such form as the Board deems advisable and
proper and it shall be final and conclusive upon all parties
concerned.

(c)  Each of the counties, municipalities, and
the City of Baltimore whose request for financial assistance
has been allowed, as provided in paragraph (b) of this
section, shall execute and acknowledge in a manner according
to law an agreement which shall specify that: The amount of
financial assistance allowed, as provided herein, together
with interest and carrying charges, shall be repaid to the
State under such terms and conditions as may be required by
regulations of the State Aviation [Commission]
ADMINISTRATION and approved by the Board of Public Works.
If any of the counties, municipalities and the City of
Baltimore do not make, as due, all such payments for
financial assistance, as provided herein, of principal,
interest, and carrying charges, the Comptroller of the
Treasury shall make all such payments of principal, interest
and carrying charges as due and shall deduct these payments
from any funds then or thereafter due to that county,
municipality or City of Baltimore from any funds then or
thereafter due to that political subdivision under
applicable provisions of state law relating to the income
tax, the tax on racing, the recordation tax, the tax on
amusements and the license tax.

(d)  The agreement described in paragraph (c) of
this section shall be signed on behalf of the State of
Maryland by the State Aviation [Commission] ADMINISTRATION,
and shall be approved by the Board of Public Works.

(e)  The governing body of each of the counties,
municipalities and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into any and
all contracts or agreements required under the terms of this
act, or which may be required by regulations duly
promulgated by the State Aviation [Commission]
ADMINISTRATION or the Board of Public Works pursuant to the
provisions of this act, any other provisions of public
general law or public local law to the contrary
notwithstanding.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1980.

Approved May 27, 1980.