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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="10-2202" title_number="10" title_name="Promotion and Identification of Agricultural Products" subtitle_number="22">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to provide grants that advance agricultural fairs and education in the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Comptroller shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Money appropriated in the State budget to the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Interest earnings; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any other money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Fund may be used only:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To provide annual grants in accordance with § 10–2203 of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For administrative expenses of the Comptroller in carrying out this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall invest the money of the Fund in the same manner as other State money may be invested.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any interest earnings of the Fund shall be credited to the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>For each fiscal year, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $200,000 to the Fund.</text>
  </level>
</section>
