Section 6-412 - Duties. - Maryland Statutes

§ 6-412. Duties.
 

(a)  Duties of Department.- The Department shall manage the Program. 

(b)  Duties of administering agency.- Each administering agency shall: 

(1) provide emergency food providers with information about the Program, including Program guidelines and fund availability; 

(2) accept and process requests for funding assistance from emergency food providers; and 

(3) allocate funding to emergency food providers based on the procedures approved in the administering agency's grant application under § 6-413 of this subtitle. 

(c)  Duties of emergency food providers.- An emergency food provider that receives a Program grant shall: 

(1) use the grant to purchase food for distribution to needy individuals; 

(2) as a condition of distributing food, provide to needy individuals information, developed in collaboration with the Department, that encourages self-sufficiency consistent with the goals of the Family Investment Program established under Title 5, Subtitle 3 of this article; 

(3) distribute information on the State's earned income tax credit established under § 10-704 of the Tax - General Article; and 

(4) submit a report to the Department and the administering agency detailing how the grant was used and how many units of service were provided. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 88A, §§ 130G(a)(2), 130J; 2007, ch. 3, § 2; 2008, ch. 116, § 2.]