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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 911

39.

The Superintendent of the Maryland State Police shall
administer the State Aid for Protection Fund. He shall
certify to the Comptroller and to the subdivisions and
qualifying municipalities the amount of payments to the
subdivisions and qualifying municipalities. He shall make
such regulations and require such reports as are necessary
to certify the amounts. In administering the fund, he shall
make a continuing effort to establish standards of police
protection adequate to the various local situations, and,
SUBJECT TO ARTICLE 40, § 51 OF THE CODE, shall report
periodically to the General Assembly on progress in
establishing and meeting those standards. In determining
qualification under § 37(a)(7), the minimum standards
determined by the Police Training Commission under authority
of § 70A of Article 41, Annotated Code of Maryland, shall be
applied. The Police Training Commission shall print and
distribute to all municipalities its rules and regulations
setting forth the minimum standards of police
qualifications. In the event a municipality fails to meet
the minimum standards for two successive years, the
Superintendent shall withhold payments to the municipality
with respect to the second year. Any payment withheld for
noncompliance is forfeited, and a claim may not be made by
the municipality for the funds.

Article 19 - Comptroller

9.

(a) [He] SUBJECT TO ARTICLE 40, § 51 OF THE CODE, THE
COMPTROLLER shall within ten days after the third Monday in
January make to the legislature and to the Governor an
annual report of the fiscal operations of the State for the
fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June preceding,
showing therein the funds and revenues of the State,
specifying the amounts received from each source of revenue,
and further showing therein the public expenditures of the
State, the purposes for which such expenditures were made
and showing amounts claimed to be due to the State by any
political subdivision or by any public officer of a
political subdivision charged by law with the collection of
revenues for the account of the State. Such annual report
shall also set forth an estimate of the revenues and
expenditures for the current fiscal year.

Article 21 - Procurement

3-1001.

(a) Within 90 days following the close of the fiscal
year, each department shall make an annual report to the
Governor and, SUBJECT TO ARTICLE 40, § 51 OF THE CODE, TO