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2006 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Ch. 77
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person to establish, construct, or install the best management practice in accordance
with technical specifications, to maintain the best management practice for its
expected life span, and to provide the required matching funds for the project;
(ii) The Board of Public Works has given approval to the project
when the proceeds of State bonds are to be used to finance the State share; and
(iii) The soil conservation district has certified to the Department
that the project meets all applicable technical standards, and that all submitted
invoices properly represent eligible costs.
(3) (i) 1. Except as authorized under sub-subparagraph 2 of this
subparagraph and before the Department of Agriculture executes a cost sharing
agreement with a farm tenant, it shall obtain the consent of the landlord to the terms
and conditions of the agreement.
2. The Department may execute the agreement without the
consent of the landlord if:
A. The agreement concerns a short-term project that
involves only the planting of a cover crop; and
B. The Department has sent by first-class mail written
notice of a cover crop project to the landlord at least 10 calendar days before executing
the agreement for the first cover crop project during the term of the lease.
(ii) The Department may also require the granting to the State of
an appropriate security interest in any equipment, structures or similar items
purchased with State moneys.
(4) A cost sharing agreement executed as required under this subtitle
may be assigned and transferred to a successor in title of all or part of a tract of land
subject to a best management practice.
(b) State cost sharing funds shall be disbursed, upon warrant of the
Comptroller, only after the Department has determined that the best management
practice has been established or in the case of equipment, structures, or similar items,
that it has been received and properly installed. Payment may be made either to the
person when the person has advanced money, or directly to a vendor or contractor in
accordance with the written agreement required by this section, or supplemental
written agreements with the vendor or contractor.
(c) (1) The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Environment
shall jointly promulgate rules and regulations to implement this subtitle. However,
rules and regulations solely involving internal management of the cost sharing
program need only be promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture. The Department
of Natural Resources shall be consulted prior to any rule making effort to assure
coordination with its sediment control and related watershed programs.
(2) All rules and regulations promulgated under this section shall be
approved by the Board of Public Works prior to the use of the proceeds of State bonds
in the cost sharing program.
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