2644                                 LAWS OF MARYLAND                               Ch. 770

release of any grant funds to the facility. The recording
of the statement notice shall not create any lien against
the property. However, when a facility is determined to be
in default, the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene shall
cause to be recorded among the land records of the political
subdivision in which the facility is located a notice of the
amount which the State is entitled to recover; and such
amount shall constitute a lien upon the real property of the
institution from the date of the determination. All funds
recovered pursuant to this right of recovery shall be
deposited in the Annuity Bond Fund and shall be applied to
the debt service requirements of the State. The Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene may waive the State's right of
recovery if he determines that there is good cause for
releasing the transferor, transferee, or owner from this
obligation.

(e)  The application in the first instance shall
be directed to the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Upon the approval of the project and project plans by the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, he shall promptly
report the application to the Board of Public Works,
together with his report that the project has been approved
by him and that the Board of Public Works should make funds
available as provided in this Act.

(f)  The Board of Public Works shall make
allocations from moneys available under this Act in
accordance with the provisions, stipulations, and
limitations of this Act. The Board of Public Works shall
certify the allocations of State funds to the Treasurer of
the State, and the Treasurer shall make funds available to
the facility when needed for the construction, acquisition,
renovation, and/or equipping of the project. The Board of
Public Works is authorized, in its descretion, to adopt and
promulgate rules and regulations for receiving applications
for public and other nonprofit facilities in this State and
for considering applications and disbursing funds to the
applying public and other nonprofit facilities, within the
spirit and intent of this Act.

(5) There is hereby levied and imposed an annual State
tax on all assessable property in the State in rate and
amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on
the bonds as and when due and until paid in full, such
principal to be discharged within fifteen years of the date
of issue of the bonds.

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

Approved May 27, 1980.