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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="4-502" title_number="4" title_name="Law Enforcement Funds and Grant Programs" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="State Aid for Police Protection Fund">
  <text>Nothing in this subtitle may be construed as requiring a county or qualifying municipality to spend more for police protection than the greater of:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>the actual expenditures for police protection, not including capital expenditures; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>the sum of:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>the amount received in State aid under this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>local funds equal to the percentage of local wealth used in calculating the State share in basic expenditures under § 4–506(b) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
