HARRY HUGHES, Governor

2695

(b)  If any person, firm, association, or corporation,
directly or indirectly violates the provisions of this
section, the person or persons knowingly participating in
the violation shall be punished by a fine of not more than
[$500.00] $500 or imprisonment of not more than [one] 1
year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

(c)  The [Department of Correctional Services] DIVISION
OF CORRECTION as funds are made available may equip the
penal and reformatory institutions of the State of Maryland
under its jurisdiction, hereinafter called "producing
institutions," with such plants, machinery, and necessaries
as will permit them adequately to supply all [goods, wares,
merchandise, and produce] SUPPLIES required to be purchased
by the needs of the State, its political subdivisions, and
by state-aided, owned, controlled, or managed public or
quasi-public institutions and agencies, hereinafter called
"consuming institutions," as may be feasible; but (except as
herein otherwise provided) in equipping the penal and
reformatory institutions with plants, machinery, and
necessaries, the [Department of Correctional Services]
DIVISION OF CORRECTION shall not utilize moneys from the
so-called [State-Use] STATE USE Industries Fund for any of
the permanent, semipermanent, or [long-time] LONGTIME
construction projects or assets which are generally included
in the phrase "capital" assets, expenditures, or projects.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding sentence,
the [Department of Correctional Services] DIVISION OF
CORRECTION may establish and utilize a revolving fund which
may not at any time contain a sum of money greater than
[five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000)] $500,000; the
revolving fund may be used for the purchase of capital
assets and also for general operating expenses, and an
accurate detailed statement shall be made and transmitted to
the Comptroller from time to time of all receipts and
disbursements from this revolving fund. All of the
consuming institutions shall purchase their requirements of
the same from the [Department of Correctional Services]
DIVISION OF CORRECTION exclusively, except as provided by §
[6A of Article 30 of the Annotated Code] 8-202 OF THIS
ARTICLE, and such [products] SUPPLIES as the [Department of
Correctional Services] DIVISION OF CORRECTION and the
Maryland Workshop for the Blind in writing notify the
Department of Budget and [Procurement] FISCAL PLANNING
cannot be furnished by the penal or reformatory institutions
of the State or the Maryland Workshop for the Blind, or such
as their perishable nature may render impracticable for such
institutions to furnish; provided, however, that this
requirement to purchase their said needs of the [Department
of Correctional Services] DIVISION OF CORRECTION does not
apply to any state-aided, managed or controlled public or
semipublic institution which does not receive at least
[fifty] 50 percent of the funds for its upkeep (exclusive of
receipts from its patrons) from the State of Maryland
[and/or] OR some political subdivision or subdivisions
thereof. It is the duty of the [Department of Correctional