WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 251

otherwise being situated in Maryland shall be protected from intentional cruelty, but that
no person shall be liable for criminal prosecution for normal human activities to which
the infliction of pain to an animal is purely incidental and unavoidable.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1994.

Approved May 2, 1994.

CHAPTER 251
(House Bill 270)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - YMCA of Cumberland

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $2,000,000
$500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Young
Men's Christian Association of Cumberland, Maryland for the construction of a new
YMCA facility in Allegany County, subject to the requirement that the Board of
Directors of the Young Men's Christian Association of Cumberland, Maryland
provide and expend a matching fund and present by a certain date evidence that a
matching fund will be provided; providing that no proceeds of a the loan or any
matching funds may be used for religious purposes; 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 YMCA of
Cumberland Loan of 1994 in a total principal amount equal to the lesser of (i) $2,000,000
$500.000 or (ii) the amount of the matching fund provided in accordance with Section
1(5) below. 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:
as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Young Men's Christian Association of
Cumberland, Maryland for the construction of a new YMCA facility in Allegany County.

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