WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 450

(1)  THE LOCAL GOVERNING BODY HAS DEVELOPED, UNDER ITS
LOCAL RECREATION AND PARKS MASTER PLAN, ACREAGE ACQUISITION GOALS

THAT EQUAL OR EXCEED THE MINIMUM SUGGESTED ACREAGE GOALS

DEVELOPED FOR THAT JURISDICTION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PLANNING UNDER THE STATE COMPREHENSIVE OUTDOOR RECREATION PLAN OR
THE STATE LAND PRESERVATION AND RECREATION PLAN; AND

(2) THE LOCAL GOVERNING BODY ACQUIRES AN AMOUNT OF
ACREAGE EQUAL TO OR IN EXCESS OF THE ACREAGE GOAL SET FORTH IN
ITS LOCAL RECREATION AND PARKS MASTER PLAN.

(J) A LOCAL GOVERNING BODY THAT HAS DEVELOPED, UNDER ITS

LOCAL RECREATION AND PARKS MASTER PLAN, ACREAGE ACQUISITION

GOALS THAT ARE LESS THAN THE MINIMUM SUGGESTED ACREAGE GOALS
DEVELOPED FOR THAT JURISDICTION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PLANNING, UNDER THE STATE COMPREHENSIVE OUTDOOR RECREATION PLAN,
OR THE STATE LAND PRESERVATION AND RECREATION PLAN, IS NOT EXEMPT
FROM THE RESTRICTIVE USE OF ITS ANNUALLY BUDGETED APPROPRIATION
FOR PROGRAM OPEN SPACE AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTIONS (C) AND (E) OF
THIS SECTION UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE LOCAL GOVERNING BODY ACQUIRES
AN AMOUNT OF ACREAGE THAT EQUALS OR EXCEEDS THE MINIMUM SUGGESTED
ACREAGE GOALS DEVELOPED FOR THAT PARTICULAR JURISDICTION BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF STATE PLANNING UNDER THE STATE COMPREHENSIVE
OUTDOOR RECREATION PLAN OR THE STATE LAND PRESERVATION AND
RECREATION PLAN.

(K) THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE PLANNING SHALL CERTIFY TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES THAT A LOCAL GOVERNING BODY HAS
COMPLIED WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (I) OR (J) OF THIS
SECTION BEFORE THE LOCAL GOVERNING BODY RECEIVING ITS ANNUAL
APPROPRIATION.

(L) WHEN CERTIFICATION IS PROVIDED AS REQUIRED BY

SUBSECTION (K) OF THIS SECTION, THE LOCAL GOVERNING BODY MAY USE
ALL OF ITS ANNUALLY BUDGETED APPROPRIATION, IN ADDITION TO ANY
PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED MONEYS FOR THAT PARTICULAR JURISDICTION
WHICH REMAIN UNEXPENDED, IN ANY PERCENTAGE THE LOCAL GOVERNING
BODY CONSIDERS APPROPRIATE BETWEEN THE ACQUISITION OR DEVELOPMENT
OF LAND FOR RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PURPOSES.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s)
5-905(g) and (h), respectively, of Article - Natural Resources of
the Annotated Code of Maryland be renumbered to be Section(s)
5-905(e) and (f), respectively.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That unless the State
Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation and Land Preservation Plan has
been reviewed and revised for the first time following the
effective date of this Act and a local governing body's
recreation and parks master plan has been revised and approved by
the Departments of Natural Resources and State Planning following

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