Md. Code, Local Government § 27–708

(a) In this section, “Fund” means the Drainage District Fund.

(b) There is a Drainage District Fund.

(c) (1) The purpose of the Fund is to encourage drainage projects to

promote the ditching, draining, leveeing, and reclaiming of wet and overflowed land

that can be made available for agriculture.

(2) Loans not exceeding $2,000 may be made from the Fund for a

drainage project to pay the expenses of the surveys, board of viewers, advertising,

and all other incidental fees and expenses connected with the drainage project until

the drainage district is established and the work is turned over to the board of

drainage commissioners.

(d) The sum of $10,000 shall be appropriated from money in the State

Treasury, which is not otherwise appropriated, to the credit of the Fund.

(e) When there is money to the credit of the Fund, the State Treasurer shall

pay the money to be loaned:

(1) on warrant of the Comptroller; and

(2) on the receipt of an itemized statement requesting the loan,

endorsed by the designated officer and presiding officer of the county commissioners

or county council of the county in which the original petition of the drainage district

was filed.

(f) The funds loaned by the State shall be returned to the State Treasury

through the county commissioners or county council, who shall collect the amount

loaned under a petition filed under this title from:

(1) if the petition is not allowed, the petitioner or the petitioner’s

surety; or

(2) if the drainage district is established, the board of drainage

commissioners out of the first proceeds of the sale of the bonds of the drainage district

charged with the loan.

(g) In order for the Fund to be available for other projects, a loan to one

drainage district may not be greater than the amount that is necessary for the use of

the drainage district.