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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="5A-329" title_number="5A" title_name="Division of Historical and Cultural Programs" subtitle_number="3">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Historic Marker Program Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is a Historic Marker Program Fund in the Trust.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to produce and install historic markers at sites of statewide historical significance.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Trust shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing special fund that is not subject to § 7-302 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall hold and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>money appropriated to the Fund in the State budget;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>money recovered by the State to replace damaged or destroyed historic markers; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>money from any other source received for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Trust may use money from the Fund to produce and install a historic marker at a site that the Trust determines to have statewide historical significance:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>if the site is on State-owned land; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>if the site is not on State-owned land and at least one-half of the cost of producing and installing the historic marker is provided from sources other than the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Money in the Fund shall be invested in the same manner as other State money.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Trust shall approve the form and text of historic markers produced and installed under this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, the Trust shall approve the location of a historic marker.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If a historic marker is to be placed within the right-of-way of a public highway or street, the unit of the State or the political subdivision that maintains the public highway or street shall approve the location and manner of installation of the historic marker.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>The State owns the historic markers produced and installed under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
