ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

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service in more than 1 company or squad that individual shall receive credit for the
service in each organization providing not more than 1 year's credits may be granted
for each calendar year of volunteer service.

(c)      In the event that sufficient records are unavailable to prove service prior to
January 1, 1986, the certification may be made by a company after thorough
investigation, and on the best information, knowledge and belief of the board of
directors of the individual company.

(d)     This program shall be funded from the public general funds of Calvert
County.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2003.

Approved April 8, 2003.

CHAPTER 34
(House Bill 175)

AN ACT concerning

Calvert County - Public Facilities Bonds

FOR the purpose of authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of
Calvert County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $7,260,000 in order
to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public
facilities in Calvert 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 relating generally to the issuance and sale of such
bonds.

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 Calvert
County, and the term "construction, improvement, or development of public facilities"

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