PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 215

(d) The master, owner, charterer, and agent of a vessel shall be jointly and
severally liable for any payments due under this section.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved April 30, 1996.

CHAPTER 215
(House Bill 352)

AN ACT concerning

State Procurement - Small Procurement Process - Threshold

FOR the purpose of modifying the threshold governing small procurements to increase
the value of certain State procurement contracts in which a less formal process may
be employed.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Finance and Procurement
Section 13-109
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

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

Article - State Finance and Procurement

13-109.

(a)     In this section, "small procurement" means a procurement for which:

(1)     a unit spends [ $10,000] $25,000 or less; or                         

(2)     a contractor provides services subject to § 11-202(3) of this article for
expected annual revenues of [$10,000] $25,000 or less.

(b)     A unit may make small procurements in accordance with the regulations of
primary procurement units.

(c)     A primary procurement unit may not create a small procurement by artificial
division of a procurement.

(d)     Any regulation of a primary procurement unit to govern small procurements:

(1)     shall provide for a simplified administrative procedure;

(2)     shall be consistent with the basic intent of this Division II; and

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