WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

37.

(b) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1975, and
thereafter, the State shall pay to each subdivision, and to each
qualifying municipality, each year in the manner and subject to
the limitations and requirements hereinafter provided, an amount
determined as follows:

(3) Minimum Grant. The State shall pay to each
subdivision the amount, if any, by which the equivalent of $2.50
per capita exceeds the total payments determined under
subparagraphs (1) and (2). No subdivision for which the
population estimate is less than the population estimated for the
first year of this grant shall receive in any year a smaller
amount of State aid for police protection than it received in any
previous year [less 0.09% of the increase of the wealth base
between that previous year and the current year], provided it has
not reduced the level of expenditure for police protection which
entitled it to the amount of that previous year's grant.

(5) Supplemental Grant. In addition to the payments
made under subparagraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this
subsection, the State shall pay to each subdivision [with a
population density of less than 8,000 per square mile,] an amount
the equivalent of $2.00 per capita. This amount of supplemental
grant shall be retained by the subdivision but the governing body
of the subdivision shall allocate and distribute part of the
amount of supplemental grant to the qualifying municipalities on
a formula basis to be negotiated between the governing body of
the subdivision and the governing body of each qualifying
municipality within the subdivision. The subdivision may use the
proceeds of the supplemental grant for expenditures for police
protection that are of benefit to all residents of the
subdivision, both within or outside of municipalities.

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

May 25, 1989

The Honorable R. Clayton Mitchell, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Dear Mr. Speaker:

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