Ch. 299

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(b)  Any federal or other grant that is available for
the purpose shall be applied first to the cost of planning,
design; construction, conversion, acquisition, renovation, or
equipping of a facility.

(c)  A State grant may not exceed $600,000 or 50
percent of the cost of eligible work remaining unpaid after all
federal and other grants have been applied, whichever is less.

(d)  The amount of the State grant for any project
shall be determined after consideration of all eligible
applications, the total of unallocated State funds available at
the time the application is received, and such priorities of area
need as may be established by the Agency.

(e)  No portion of the proceeds of a State grant may
be used for the furtherance of sectarian religious instruction,
or in connection with the design, acquisition, or construction of
any building used or to be used as a place of sectarian religious
worship or instruction, or in connection with any program or
department of divinity for any religious denomination. Upon the
request of the Board of Public Works, the applicant shall submit
evidence satisfactory to the Board that none of the proceeds of
the grant has been or is being used for a purpose prohibited by
the Act.

(8)  The Board of Public Works shall make allocations from
funds available under this Act in accordance with this Act. The
Board shall certify the allocations to the proper State officers,
and the Treasurer shall make payments to or on behalf of the
applicant, when needed, for the planning, design, construction,
conversion, acquisition, renovation and/or equipping of a
facility. The Board may adopt regulations for receiving and
considering applications and for disbursing funds to or on behalf
of the applicants.

(9)  If, within 30 years after completion of a project, a
Juvenile Residential Program, with respect to which funds have
been paid under this Act is sold or transferred to any person,
agency, or organization that would not qualify as an applicant
under this Act, or that is not approved as a transferee by the
Board of Public Works, or if, within the same period, such a
Juvenile Residential Program ceases to be a "facility" as defined
in this Act, then the State may recover from either the
transferor or transferee or, in the case of a Juvenile
Residential Program that has ceased to be a "facility" as defined
in this Act, from the owner, an amount bearing the same ratio to
the then-current value of so much of the property as constituted
an approved project as the amount of the State participation bore
to the total eligible cost of the approved project, together with
all costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the State in
the recovery proceedings.

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