WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 579

in the affected immediate geographic areas of the State and shall
consult with the affected counties and municipalities.

(d) The Department shall provide technical assistance,
training, research, and coordination in stormwater management
technology to the local governments consistent with the purposes
of this subtitle.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1988.

Approved May 27, 1988.

CHAPTER 579
(Senate Bill 341)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Elderly Citizen Activities
Centers Loan of 1988

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in
the amount $1,000,000 $1,300,000, the proceeds to be used,
subject to certain terms and conditions, for State grants to
local government agencies, and for subgrants by local
government agencies to nonprofit organizations, for: (1) the
conversion of public buildings or parts of buildings to
Elderly Citizen Activities Centers, (2) the acquisition of
existing buildings or parts of buildings for use as Elderly
Citizen Activities Centers, (3) the renovation of Elderly
Citizen Activities Centers, (4) the purchase of capital
equipment for Elderly Citizen Activities Centers, and (5)
the planning, design, and construction of Elderly Citizen
Activities Centers, and for State grants to local government
agencies for the development of comprehensive master plans
for Elderly Citizen Activities Centers in the political
subdivisions; providing procedures for the approval of
grants; providing certain limitations on the amount of State
funds available to pay the cost of eligible work; providing
that the State may recover a certain portion of the State
funds expended under certain circumstances; requiring the
Director of the Office on Aging to adopt certain regulations
with certain approval and to make a certain report to the
General Assembly each year; 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:

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