# Local Government (GLG)

## Title 19. Public Debt

### Subtitle 10. Public Debt -- Grants and Loans for Septic Upgrades

#### Section 19-1001

A county may borrow money and incur indebtedness through the issuance and sale of notes in anticipation of the receipt of the county's allocation of funds from the separate account of the Bay Restoration Fund established under Sec. 9-1605.2(h) of the Environment Article.

#### Section 19-1002

A county may expend the net proceeds of the sale of an issue of notes only to:

(1) make grants and loans in accordance with Sec. 9-1605.2(h)(2)(i) of the Environment Article;

(2) make grants and loans to cover engineering costs and non-best-available-technology components, including drainfields, needed for the repair of existing on-site sewage disposal systems or the installation of new on-site sewage disposal systems that use the best available technology for nitrogen removal; or

(3) refund one or more issues of notes.

#### Section 19-1003

(a) The principal of the notes may be paid from:

  (1) the county's allocation of funds from the special account of the Bay Restoration Fund established under Sec. 9-1605.2(h) of the Environment Article; and

  (2) any other revenues that are pledged to the payment of the notes in the authorizing resolution.

(b) The interest on the notes may be paid from:

  (1) any revenues, other than the county's allocation of funds from the special account of the Bay Restoration Fund, that are pledged to the payment of the notes in the authorizing resolution; or

  (2) money made available to the county to finance upgrades to on-site sewage disposal systems from:

    (i) the State or a unit of the State, except for the funds from the special account of the Bay Restoration Fund allocated under this subtitle for grants and loans;

    (ii) the federal government or a unit of the federal government; or

    (iii) any other source.

(c)

  (1) A county may pledge its full faith and credit and taxing power to the payment of the principal of and interest on the notes in the authorizing resolution.

  (2) A county that makes a pledge under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall, in each fiscal year that any of the notes are outstanding, impose ad valorem taxes on all assessable property in the county at a rate and amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the notes maturing in that fiscal year.

  (3) If the proceeds from the taxes imposed in any fiscal year prove inadequate for the payment, the county shall impose additional taxes in the succeeding fiscal year to make up the deficiency.

#### Section 19-1004

The authority to borrow money and issue notes granted to a county under this subtitle is:

(1) supplemental to any other power granted to a county by any other law; and

(2) not in derogation of any other existing power of a county to borrow money.

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Md. Code Ann., Local Gov't (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)