(7) OTHER POWERS AND DUTIES TO BE DETERMINED BY THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

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

Approved May 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 373
(Senate Bill 645)

AN ACT concerning

Frederick County - Public Facilities Bonds

FOR the purpose of authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of
Frederick County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $90,000,000 in
order to finance the cost of certain public facilities in Frederick County, as
herein defined, and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or
private sale of its general obligation bonds in like par amount; empowering the
County to fix and determine, by resolution, the form, tenor, interest rate or rates
or method of determining the same, terms, conditions, maturities, and all other
details incident to the issuance and sale of the bonds; empowering the County to
issue refunding bonds for the purchase or redemption of bonds in advance of
maturity; empowering and directing the County to levy, impose, and collect,
annually, ad valorem taxes in rate and amount sufficient to provide funds for
the payment of the maturing principal of and interest on the bonds; exempting
the bonds and refunding bonds and the interest thereon and any income derived
therefrom from all State, county, municipal, and other taxation in the State of
Maryland; providing that nothing in this Act shall prevent the County from
authorizing the issuance and sale of bonds the interest on which is not
excludable from gross income for federal income tax purposes; and generally
relating to the issuance and sale of the bonds by Frederick County.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That, as used herein, the term "County" means the body politic and
corporate of the State of Maryland known as the County Commissioners of Frederick
County, and the term "public facilities" means the cost of construction and
reconstruction of capital projects, including but not limited to landfill projects, public
schools, roads, bridges, flood control projects, solid waste facilities, water and leachate
treatment facilities, libraries, and communication systems, including the
development of property, the acquisition and installation of equipment and
furnishings, together with any related architectural, financial, legal, planning, or
engineering services.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the County is hereby
authorized to finance any part or all of the costs of the public facilities described in
Section 1 of this Act, and to borrow money and incur indebtedness for that purpose, at