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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-402" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Supervision of Recipients">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Social organization” means an association or corporation that is operated for a charitable, cultural, educational, historical, humane, industrial, medical, or military purpose.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“State aid” means a contribution, grant, or subsidy of money from the State Treasury.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each social organization that, by statute, is to receive State aid shall make an agreement:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>with the unit of the State government to which the money for the State aid has been appropriated; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>if the money is not appropriated to a unit, with the Comptroller.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An agreement under this subsection shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>define the purposes and terms of the State aid; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>require the social organization to submit to the unit or Comptroller a report on expenditure of the State aid.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Unless the agreement sets another date for submission of the report, a social organization shall submit the report on or before September 1 after the close of the fiscal year in which the social organization received the State aid.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The report shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>contain an itemized statement that fully and accurately accounts for how the State aid was spent; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be verified:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>by an officer of the social organization; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>for a military organization, by the commanding officer.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>After a unit or the Comptroller receives a report under this section, the unit or Comptroller:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>shall determine whether the social organization has spent and accounted for the State aid in accordance with the agreement; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>if the unit or Comptroller finds inconsistencies between the agreement and the expenditures or operations of the social organization, shall give the Department of Budget and Management and, subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, the Department of Legislative Services notice of the inconsistencies.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>To ensure compliance with this section, the unit or the Comptroller may audit the financial records of a social organization.</text>
  </level>
</section>
