SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1999.

Approved April 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 228
(House Bill 353)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Harford County - Harford Memorial Hospital

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $296,000,
the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Harford Memorial
Hospital for certain development or improvement purposes; providing for
disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee
provide and expend a matching fund; 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 Harford
County - Harford Memorial Hospital Loan of 1999 in a total principal amount equal
to the lesser of (i) $296,000 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 Harford
Memorial Hospital (referred to hereafter in this Act as "the grantee") for the planning,
design, renovation, repair, construction, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the
emergency department at Harford Memorial Hospital and of space to treat victims of
sexual abuse and domestic violence, to be located at 501 South Union Avenue in
Havre de Grace.