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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-1402" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="14">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Markell Hendricks Youth Crime Prevention and Diversion Parole Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to provide grant assistance to local law enforcement agencies to  administer:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a diversion program under § 3–8A–10(m)(2) of the Courts Article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a youth engagement program or event in a high–crime area.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Executive Director 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, in conjunction with the Executive Director, shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>money appropriated in the State budget to the Fund;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>investment earnings of the Fund; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For each fiscal year, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $50,000 for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Fund may be used only to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies  for the purposes established under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
  </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>The accounts and transactions of the Fund shall be subject to audit by the Legislative Auditor as provided in § 2–1220 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
