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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 121

[distribution] DISTRIBUTIONS to the GENERAL FUND OF THE State, as
provided in paragraphs (2) [and], (3), (4), AND (5) of this
subsection, the remainder shall be paid and distributed quarterly
to each county and the City of Baltimore, to be credited into the
general funds of each such political subdivision. The amount to
be paid to each political subdivision shall be a pro rata share
of the remainder, in the same ratio from time to time as the
population of the political subdivision is to the population of
the State. In no event, however, shall a political subdivision be
paid under this distribution for any State fiscal year a sum of
money less than that political subdivision received during the
calendar year of 1960 as the net collection, after the deduction
of administrative and collection expenses, from a cigarette tax
then imposed and collected by that political subdivision. If an
extra payment is made to any political subdivision under the
workings of this paragraph, in the amount necessary to assure
that its payments equal its net collections in 1960, as
specified, the amount of the payment first computed for that
political subdivision plus the extra payment to it then shall be
deducted from the total amount distributable to the several other
political subdivisions; and the amount then distributable to each
of the other political subdivisions shall be recalculated, as a
pro rata share of the remainder, in the same ratio from time to
time as the population of the respective political subdivision is
to the total population of these several other political
subdivisions. Population figures for the purpose of these
computations from time to time shall be the population records of
the State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as of January
1 and July 1 of each and every year.

(b) After July 1, 1961, no political subdivision of this
State shall have any power or authority to impose a tax upon
cigarettes, whether under a public general or public local law.
Any such law which grants or purports to grant such power or
authority to a political subdivision is repealed on July 1, 1961.
However nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent
the collection of taxes imposed on cigarettes after July 1, 1961,
if such taxes were due and payable to any political subdivision
on or before that date.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of
Maryland read as follows:

Article - Education

5-308.

(A) THERE IS AN ASBESTOS REMOVAL FUND ADMINISTERED BY THE
INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION.

(B) THE ASBESTOS REMOVAL FUND IS A CONTINUING, NONLAPSING
FUND THAT CONSISTS OF FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

(C) THE INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SHALL
USE THE ASBESTOS REMOVAL FUND SOLELY TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO COUNTY