PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 206

(b) The easement must be in form and substance acceptable to the Trust
and the extent of the interest to be encumbered must be acceptable to the Trust.

(7) No portion of the proceeds of the loan or any of the matching funds may be
used for the furtherance of sectarian religious instruction, or in connection with the
design, acquisition, or construction of any building used or to be used as a place of
sectarian religious worship or instruction, or in connection with any program or
department of divinity for any religious denomination. Upon the request of the Board of
Public Works, the grantee shall submit evidence satisfactory to the Board that none of the
proceeds of the loan or any matching funds have been or are being used for a purpose
prohibited by this Act.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1997.

Approved April 29, 1997.

CHAPTER 206
(Senate Bill 842)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - The Maryland School for the Blind

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $262,500
$260,000 $230,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to The Maryland School for
the Blind for certain acquisition, development, or improvement purposes; providing
for disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee
provide and expend a matching fund; requiring the grantee to grant and convey a
certain easement to the Maryland Historical Trust; 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 Maryland School
for the Blind Loan of 1997 in the total principal amount of $262,500 $260,000 $230,000.
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

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