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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 328

CHAPTER 328

(Senate Bill 373)

AN ACT concerning

State Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Fund

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the Secretary of Public Safety and
Correctional Services from adopting certain procedures
relating to capital equipment when implementing the State
Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Fund; prohibiting the imposition
of certain constraints on the purchase of capital and
noncapital equipment; repealing a prohibition on the use of
State funds in the State Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Fund
for certain purposes providing for the applicability of this
Act to include a certain fiscal year; and generally relating
to the State Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Fund.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 38A - Fires and Investigations

Section 45B (b) and (d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 38A - Fires and Investigations

Section 45B(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 38A - Fires and Investigations

45B.

(b) (1) The Secretary shall administer the fund in
accordance with this subtitle and other applicable law.

(2) [The] SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATIONS IN PARAGRAPH (3)
OF THIS SUBSECTION, THE Secretary may adopt procedures for the
implementation of this subtitle including additional auditing and
reporting requirements. [However, except as otherwise expressly
provided under this subtitle, training or operational
requirements may not be imposed as a precondition to receipt of
funds.]

(3) THE SECRETARY MAY NOT: