HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                         1705

(A)   [The annual budget for Washington County, as] AS
submitted to the [Board of] County Commissioners, THE ANNUAL
BUDGET shall have a figure for the total of all proposed
appropriations and a figure for the total of all estimated
revenues available to pay the appropriations. The figure for
total proposed appropriations may not exceed the figure for total
estimated revenues.

(B)   [The Board in] IN amending the budget bill, THE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS may not cause the figure for total proposed
appropriations to exceed the figure for total estimated revenues,
including any revisions, and in the budget as enacted, the figure
for total estimated revenues always shall be equal to or exceed
the figure for total appropriations.

(C)  The only surplus of unexpended funds which can be used
to balance the annual budget is a surplus confirmed by audit.
(8-45B. County Budget Requirements. 1976, ch. 231.)

Code Supplement

8-46. Publication.

The County Commissioners [of Washington County] shall have
prepared and published, or contract for the preparation and
publication, of a supplement to or new edition of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Washington County. The supplement or new
edition shall be published in 1976 or before and at intervals of
no less than four years after that date. (1975, ch. 248, sec.
8-43.)

Footnotes

(1) The Board of County Commissioners of Washington County
was authorized to issue bonds as follows: 1931, ch. 135, $45,000.
for Sharpsburg school; 1931, ch. 386, $10,000. for Sandy Hook
school; 1933, ch. 9, $55,000. for Sharpsburg and Sandy Hook
schools (and this Act also repealed ch. 135 and ch. 386 of 1931);
1936 Sp. Sess., ch. 150, $135,000. for Sharpsburg, Morgansville,
Sandy Hook and Mt. Lena schools (and this Act also repealed ch. 9
of 1933); 1937, ch. 452, $190,000 for Williamsport High School,
Woodland Way Junior High School and South Potomac Junior High
School; 1939; ch. 363, $400,000. for a court house building
and/or jail, this Act being defeated by a vote of 1865 "For" and
9052 "Against" at a referendum election on November 5, 1940 (see
1941 Session Laws, p. 2072); 1941, ch. 200, $200,000. for
National Defense Training Center Building and the Hancock
Elementary School; 1947, ch. 632, $1,500,000. for the Washington
Street Junior High School, the North Street High and Elementary
School, and other schools; 1955, ch. 392, $8,000,000. for
building and equipping schools; 1961, ch. 905, $1,000,000. for
office facilities (amended by ch. 20, 1st Special Session of
1962); 1961 Special Session, ch. 11, $750,000. for junior or
community college buildings; 1963, ch. 690, $9,000,000 for
schools; 1967, ch. 352, $10,000,000. for schools.