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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 59-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="59-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Area median income.">“Area median income” means the median household income for an area adjusted for household size, as published and annually updated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Cannabis.">“Cannabis” has the meaning stated in § 5-101 {“Definitions”} of the State Criminal Law Article.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Commission.">“Commission” means the Community Reinvestment and Reparations Commission.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Community-based organization.">“Community-based organization” means a public or private organization that is representative of a community or significant segments of a community, and provides educational, health, or social services to individuals in the community.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Demonstrated knowledge.">“Demonstrated knowledge” means an individual has displayed competency with a subject, as demonstrated by:<para num="(1)">publishing written material</para>
      <para num="(2)">delivering programmatic offerings to the public; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">creating and providing to the public educational materials.</para>
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    <para num="(g)" heading="Direct.">“Direct” means to carry out the organizing, energizing, and supervising of funds disbursed to the City pursuant to § 13-4601 {“Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund”} of the State Health-General Article .</para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Fund.">“Fund” means the State Community Investment and Repair Fund.</para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Low-income community.">“Low-income community” means a community where the average household income is less than 80% of the Area Median Income.</para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Structural racism.">“Structural racism” means a policy or set of policies that widen the social and political disadvantages within society for members of 1 or more minority groups.</para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="White supremacy.">“White supremacy” means the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them.</para>
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</baltimore-city-law>
