794                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 18

WHICH A DWELLING HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED, WHICH REAL PROPERTY
SHALL BE VALUED AT ITS PURCHASE PRICE OR APPRAISED VALUE,
WHICHEVER IS LESS. An individual mortgage loan authorized
under this program may not exceed $80,000.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 15, 1981 is declared to be an
emergency measure and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety and having been
passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, it shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 14, 1981.

CHAPTER 19

(Senate Bill 68)

AN ACT concerning

Foster Care - Local Boards

FOR the purpose of permitting the formation of local
multicounty foster care boards instead of individual
boards for each county and Baltimore City; and
generally relating to multicounty foster care boards.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

Section 116

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 88A - Social Services Administration

116.

(a)  The local boards for review of cases of children
who receive foster care are created.

(b)  EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (C) OF THIS
SECTION [There] THERE shall be at least one local board in
each county and Baltimore City composed of five members and
two alternates appointed by the Governor from residents of
the county which the board serves. Each board member shall