Ch. 667

LAWS OF MARYLAND

the time the application is received, and such priorities of area
need as may be established by the Department.

(g) 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 had have been or is are being used for the purpose
prohibited by this 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 approved project. The Board may
adopt regulations for receiving and considering applications and
for disbursing funds to or on behalf of applicants.

(9)  If, within 30 years after completion of a project, a
property 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 property 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 property 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.

(a)  Before the State makes any funds available for an
approved project, the Department shall cause a notice of this
right of recovery to be recorded in the land records of the
county or Baltimore City in which the property is located. The
recording of the notice shall not create any lien against the
property; however, it shall constitute notice to any potential
transferee, potential creditor, or other interested party of the
possibility that the State may obtain a lien under this Act.

(b)  In the event of an alleged sale or transfer as
described above, or in the event that a property is alleged to
have ceased to be a "facility" as defined in this Act, the
Secretary of the Board of Public Works may file, in the circuit
court for the county or Baltimore City in which the property is
located, a claim under this Act (styled as a civil action against.

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