HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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The provisions of former Art. 88C, § 13 that related
to units of the State government now appear in SF §
2-203.

Article 31 - Debt - Public

1. SCOPE OF ARTICLE.

THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT APPLY TO THE STATE OR TO ANY OF ITS
UNITS OR INSTRUMENTALITIES.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Chapter ____, Acts of 1985, which enacted

the State Finance and Procurement Article, also
enacted this section to ensure that this article does
not apply to the State or any of its units or
instrumentalities that are governed by Title 8,
Subtitle 2 or Subtitle 3 of the State Finance and
Procurement Article.

3.

An officer or agent of [the State or] any county, township
or municipal corporation[,] who is charged or entrusted with the
construction, improvement or keeping in repair of any building or
work of any kind, or with the management or providing for any
public institution, shall not make any contract binding or
purporting to bind the [State, or any] county, township or [any]
municipal corporation to pay any sum of money not previously
appropriated for the purpose for which such contract is made, and
remaining unexpended, and applicable to such purpose^-, such
officer or agent who wilfully or knowingly makes or participates
in making a contract without such appropriation or authority,
shall be personally liable thereon, and the [State,] county,
township or municipal corporation in whose name or behalf the
same was made[,] shall be not liable thereon.

REVISOR'S NOTE: Chapter ____, Acts of 1985, which enacted

the State Finance and Procurement Article, also
amended this section to delete the references to the
State and its units and instrumentalities and to make
stylistic changes.

These deletions reflect that the substance of this
section, as it related to the State and its units and
instrumentalities, has been repeated in SF § 7-237(a),
(b)(1), and (c).

8.

In all cases where [this State or] any county, municipal or
public corporation or other political subdivision [thereof,] OF
THE STATE or where any instrumentality or agency of said [State
or of any] county, municipal or public corporation or other
political subdivision [thereof,] shall have issued and sold or
may hereafter issue and sell, pursuant to proper authority duly