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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 29, 1984.

CHAPTER 534

(Senate Bill 379)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Harford County - Detention Center

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in
the amount of $390,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant
to the County Executive and the County Council of Harford
County for the purpose of the reconstruction, renovation,
rehabilitation, reequipping, restoration, and improvement of
the Harford County Detention Center subject to the
requirement that the County Executive and County Council of
Harford County provide at least an equal and matching fund
of a certain type for the same purpose by a certain date;
and providing generally for the issue and sale of bonds
evidencing the loan.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

(1)  The Board of Public Works may borrow money and incur
indebtedness on behalf of the State of Maryland through a State
loan to be known as the Harford County Detention Center Loan of
1984 in the aggregate principal amount of $390,000. This loan
shall be evidenced by the issuance and sale of State general
obligation bonds authorized by a resolution of the Board of
Public Works and issued, sold and delivered in accordance with
the provisions of §§ 19 to 23 of Article 31 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1983 Replacement Volume, as amended from time to
time).

(2)  The bonds issued to evidence this loan or installments
thereof may be sold as a single issue, or may be consolidated and
sold as part of a single issue of bonds under § 2B of Article 31
of the Code.

(3)  The actual cash proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall
be paid to the Treasurer and shall be first applied to the
payment of the expenses of issuing and delivering the bonds
unless funds for this purpose are otherwise provided and
thereafter shall be credited on the books of the State
Comptroller and expended, upon approval by the Board of Public
Works, for the following public purposes, including any
applicable architects' and engineers' fees: as a grant to the