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2007 Laws of Maryland
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Ch. 597
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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 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"
means the acquisition, alteration, construction, reconstruction, enlargement,
equipping, expansion, extension, improvement, rehabilitation, renovation, upgrading,
and repair of public buildings and facilities, and issuance costs together with the costs
of acquiring land or interests in land as well as 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
one time or from time to time, in an amount not exceeding, in the aggregate,
$53,110,000 and to evidence such borrowing by the issuance and sale upon its full
faith and credit of general obligation bonds in like par amount, which may be issued at
one time or from time to time, in one or more groups or series, as the County may
determine.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the bonds shall be issued
in accordance with a resolution of the County, which shall describe generally the
construction, improvement, or development of public facilities for which the proceeds
of the bond sale are intended and the amount needed for those purposes. The County
shall have and is hereby granted full and complete authority and discretion in the
resolution to fix and determine with respect to the bonds of any issue: the designation,
date of issue, denomination or denominations, form or forms, and tenor of the bonds
which, without limitation, may be issued in registered form within the meaning of
Section 30 of Article 31 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended; the rate or
rates of interest payable thereon, or the method of determining the same, which may
include a variable rate; the date or dates and amount or amounts of maturity, which
need not be in equal par amounts or in consecutive annual installments, provided only
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