WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                    Ch. 461

CHAPTER 461

(House Bill 416)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Community Mental Health Facilities,

Addiction Facilities, and Developmental Disabilities

Facilities Loan of 1987

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State debt in
the amount of $1,500,000 $2,000,000, 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 facilities, addiction
facilities, and developmental disabilities facilities,
including 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 no proceeds of a grant may be used
for certain religious purposes; providing that under certain
circumstances the State may recover a certain portion of. the
State funds expended; 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:

(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 Community Mental Health Facilities,
Addiction Facilities, and Developmental Disabilities Facilities
Loan of 1987 in the total principal amount of $1,500,000
$2,000,000. This loan shall be evidenced by the issuance, sale,
and delivery of State general obligation bonds authorized by a
resolution of the Board of Public Works and issued, sold, and
delivered in accordance with §§ 8-117 through 8-124 of the State
Finance and Procurement Article and Article 31, § 22 of the Code.

(2)  The bonds to evidence this loan or installments of this
loan may be sold as a single issue, or may be consolidated and
sold as part of a single issue of bonds under § 8-122 of the
State Finance and Procurement Article.

(3)  The cash proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be
paid to the Treasurer and first shall be applied to the payment
of the expenses of issuing, selling, and delivering the bonds,
unless funds for this purpose are otherwise provided, and then
shall be credited on the books of the Comptroller and expended,

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