HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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determines that there is good cause for releasing the transferor,
transferee, or owner from this obligation.

(9)  Each year, the Director of the Office on Aging shall
report to the General Assembly on the allocation and use of the
funds made available by this Act. The report shall include a
description of the number, capacity, and condition of Elderly
Citizen Activities Centers in each political subdivision.

(10)  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 15 years of the date of issue of the bonds.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1985.

Approved May 28, 1985.

CHAPTER 542

(Senate Bill 413)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Community Mental Health Center
Components, Addiction Facilities, Mental Retardation Facilities,
and Developmental Disabilities Facilities Loan of 1985

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in
the amount of $2,000,000 $1,700,000 $1,900,000, the proceeds
to be used for State grants to certain public and other
nonprofit entities for the construction, acquisition,
renovation, and equipping of community mental health center
components, addiction facilities, mental retardation
facilities, and developmental disabilities facilities,
including the reports, plans, specifications, site
improvements, surveys, and programs in connection therewith;
defining certain terms; requiring certain information from
grantees; requiring the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene to adopt regulations, including regulations
providing for continuing information; placing limits on the
amount of the grants; providing that the State may recover a
certain portion of the State funds expended under certain
circumstances; and providing generally for the issuance and
sale of bonds evidencing the loan.

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