Section 6-703 - Purposes. - Maryland Statutes

§ 6-703. Purposes.
 

The purposes of the Program are: 

(1) to encourage and assist eligible foreign-born residents to become naturalized citizens of the United States and active participants in the civic life of Maryland; 

(2) to increase the number and proportion of eligible foreign-born residents who become citizens of the United States; and 

(3) to encourage foreign-born residents who become citizens to be involved in our democratic institutions. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 88A, § 145(d); 2007 , ch. 3, § 2.]