HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1999

CHAPTER 238

(Senate Bill 796)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Dorchester County Jail

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in
the amount of $175,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant
to the Board of County Commissioners of Dorchester County
for the purpose of the planning of a county jail, subject to
the requirement that the Board of County Commissioners of
Dorchester County provide at least an equal and matching
fund of a certain kind 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 Dorchester County Jail Loan of 1985 in
the aggregate principal amount of $175,000. 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 and 1984 Supplement, 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
Board of County Commissioners of Dorchester County for the
purpose of the planning of a county jail.

(4)  There is hereby levied and imposed an annual State tax
on all assessable property in the State in rate and amount
sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds as
and when due and until paid in full, such principal to be
discharged within fifteen years of the date of issue of the
bonds.