Maryland Code, COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 13-603
Terms Used In Maryland Code, COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 13-603
- Administrator: includes an executor and a personal representative. See
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- state: means :
(1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or
(2) the District of Columbia. See
(1) Surcharges collected under §§ 7-102(b), 7-202(e), and 7-301(c)(4) of this article and § 13-604 of this subtitle; and
(2) Revenues from copies made on equipment bought through the Fund.
(b) The Fund is a nonlapsing revolving fund which is not subject to § 7-302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.
(c) The Fund shall be used to pay:
(1) The operating expenses of the land records offices of the clerks of the circuit courts and to repair, replace, improve, modernize, and update office equipment and equipment related services in the land records office of the clerk of the circuit court for each county, as the Administrator considers appropriate, with advice from the oversight committee; and
(2) For major information technology development projects of the Judiciary Department, as the Administrator considers appropriate.
(d) Expenditures under this section shall only be made pursuant to an appropriation approved by the General Assembly in the annual State budget prior to the expenditure or obligation of funds.
(e) The Fund shall be subject to an audit by the Office of Legislative Audits as provided for in § 2-1220 of the State Government Article.
(f) Disbursements from the Fund shall supplement and may not be a substitute for any funds designated in the State budget for office equipment and services in the land records office of the clerk of the circuit court for each county.