WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                      Ch. 70

deemed to constitute the emergency in at least 2 county
newspapers; and

(5) Purchases based on state, county, or municipal
contracts that are established by a legal competitive process.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989.

Approved April 11, 1989.

CHAPTER 70

(House Bill 446)

AN ACT concerning

Queen Anne's County - Borrowing Power

FOR the purpose of altering the borrowing power of the County
Commissioners of Queen Anne's County; and clarifying
language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Queen Anne's County
Section 1-106

Article 18 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1983 Edition and 1986 Supplement, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 18 - Queen Anne's County

1-106.

The County Commissioners may borrow as needed, such sum or
sums of money, excluding any IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER bonded
indebtedness, not to exceed in the aggregate [$3,000,000]
$8,000,000 outstanding at any time, for the purposes of paying
the general operating expenses or capital improvements of the
county or any of its departments and to pledge the faith and
credit of the county therefor, subject only to the provisions of
this section. Any sum or sums of money so borrowed by the
authority of this section, together with interest [thereon],
shall be repaid by any other income belonging to the general
funds of the county or any of its departments or by any funds

- 1675 -