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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 404

(1)   Filed with the Secretary [an audited] A
financial statement THAT IS REVIEWED BY A CERTIFIED PUBLIC
ACCOUNTANT establishing that the applicant's grain business
has a net worth of at least $100,000; [or]

(2)   Filed with the Secretary a letter from a
[licensed CPA attesting that his examination] CERTIFIED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT STATING THAT A REVIEW of the records of
the applicant's grain business shows a net worth of at least
$100,000; or

(3)  Posted a surety bond in the amount of
$100,000.

[(b) Unless a licensee shows a net worth of more than
$1,000,000 at the time of application, the licensee must
file a financial statement every 180 days.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby 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, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 405

(House Bill 1202)

AN ACT concerning

Water Pollution Control - Cost Sharing

FOR the purpose of establishing a cost sharing program for
certain agricultural practices approved to control
pollution caused by sediment and animal wastes; setting
limits on the amount of cost sharing funds that may be

provided to an operating farm unit; establishing

eligibility requirements; providing that the Soil

Conservation District shall implement the cost sharing
program; requiring a recipient of cost sharing funds to
maintain the agricultural practice in good operating
conditions; providing that a person may not be liable
for the failure of a cost-sharing practice under certain

circumstances; and generally relating to a soil

conservation cost-sharing program. projects to control
nonpoint source agriculturally related water pollution