WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 208

CHAPTER 208

(House Bill 481)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Chesapeake Bay
Water Quality Loan of 1989

FOR the purpose of restoring, protecting, and improving the water
quality of the Chesapeake Bay and the waters of the State by
authorizing the creation of a State debt in the amount of
$22,725,000 the proceeds to be used for certain programs or

projects related to construction or improvement of

publicly owned sewage treatment works, and the removal of
nutrients at publicly owned sewage treatment works, and to
provide assistance to meet the local share of construction
costs authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount
of $22,725,000 the proceeds to be credited to the Water
Pollution Control Fund and expended for projects to improve
the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay and other waters of
the State, as authorized under Title 9, Subtitle 3, Part VI
of the Environment Article, subject to certain terms,
conditions, and restrictions; 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 Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Loan of 1989
in the total principal amount of $22,725,000. 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,
on approval by the Board of Public Works, for the following
public purposes, including any applicable architects' and
engineers' fees: to be credited to the Water Pollution Control

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