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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 6B-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="6B-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Director.">“Director” means the Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Family.">“Family” means 1 or more individuals who reside together as a household.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Mayor’s Office.">“Mayor’s Office” means the Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Program.">“Program” means the Baltimore City Emergency Security Deposit Grant Program.</para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Security deposit.">“Security deposit” means an amount of money that a tenant pays to a landlord that the landlord must return to the tenant at the end of the lease minus any amount the landlord used for the tenant’s:<para num="(1)">non-payment of rent;</para>
      <para num="(2)">breach of the lease; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">damage to property.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Security deposit grant; grant.">“Security deposit grant” or “grant”:<para num="(1)">means a one-time payment by the Program of up to $2,000 toward a security deposit; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">is not considered income to the tenant in determining the tenant’s income eligibility, unless otherwise required by any state or federal law that governs the source of funds for this grant.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 21-040</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-124</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
