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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 30-7 Financing.">
  <section prefix="§" num="30-7" heading="Financing.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Underwriting standards.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="Maximum loan term.">A clean energy loan may be for a term not exceeding 25 years.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Financing agreement.">The financing agreement may contain any terms agreed to by the clean energy lender and the property owner, as permitted by law.</para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Costs included.">A clean energy loan may include costs associated with executing the financing agreement, including origination, legal, and closing costs, but excluding the non-financeable fees provided for in &lt;cite data-path="|28|§30-3|(c)|(2)"&gt;§ 30-3(c)(2) {“Program expenses”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt;.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Timing.">
      <para num="(1)">For projects initiated on or after July 1, 2016, through December 31, 2019, the  Administrator may approve a clean energy loan up 30 months after the property owner places qualifying energy improvements in service, as long as the property owner has filed an initial PACE loan application on or before December 31, 2019.</para>
      <para num="(2)">For projects initiated on or after January 1, 2020, the  Administrator may approve a clean energy loan up to 30 months after the property owner places qualifying energy improvements in service, as long as the property owner has filed an initial PACE loan application prior to:<para num="(i)">commencing construction of an energy-improvement project; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">altering a previously proposed project to include qualifying energy improvements.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Public financing precluded.">The City may not directly finance or fund any clean energy loans under the PACE Loan Program.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-533</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-128</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
