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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 12 Special funds for education.">
  <section prefix="§" num="12" heading="Special funds for education.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Authorization.">
      <para num="(1)">By Ordinance, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may establish 1 or more continuing, nonlapsing funds for purposes of enhancing the educational environment in Baltimore City by creating modern, state-of-the-art schools.</para>
      <para num="(2)">These purposes include supporting and augmenting programs and activities of the Baltimore City Public School System that are designed to:<para num="(i)">increase new school construction;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">renovate and improve existing City school building;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">renew athletic facilities and provide recreational equipment and supplies; and</para>
        <para num="(iv)">modernize education-related equipment and supplies.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Revenue sources.">A fund established under &lt;cite data-path="I|§12"&gt;this section&lt;/cite&gt; may comprise:<para num="(1)">money appropriated to the fund  in the annual Ordinances of Estimates; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">grants or donations made to the fund.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Continuing nature of fund.">Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, unspent portions of a fund established under &lt;cite data-path="I|§12"&gt;this section&lt;/cite&gt;:<para num="(1)">remain in the fund, to be used exclusively for their ordained purposes;</para>
      <para num="(2)">do not revert to the general revenues of the City; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">their appropriations do not lapse.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Res. 11-032, ratified Nov. 9, 2011</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
