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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 27-6 Equity investments and loans.">
  <section prefix="§" num="27-6" heading="Equity investments and loans.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Enterprise investments or loans authorized.">To implement the Program, the City may make an equity investment in or a loan to an enterprise, provided that the City in its sole and absolute discretion determines that such equity investment or loan will:<para num="(1)">provide working capital to the enterprise or be used by the enterprise to purchase machinery or equipment; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">assist in the establishment or growth of an enterprise and likely result in the establishment or expansion of manufacturing, office, research or related activities in the City.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Conditions.">Any equity investment or loan made pursuant to paragraph (a):<para num="(1)">shall be made only to and for the benefit of an enterprise; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">shall be upon the terms and conditions as the City in its sole and absolute discretion may prescribe, provided that:<para num="(i)">if a loan is made from the proceeds of a bond issue, the loan may not bear interest at a rate that would cause the bonds to be “arbitrage bonds” within the meaning of Section 103(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, or any successor provision; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">a loan shall mature at a date no later than 10 years following the date on which the first funds are advanced to the enterprise.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Fees.">The City may establish fees in an amount calculated to cover the administrative expense of making the equity investment or the loan.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Discretion to combine loans, investments, guarantees, etc.">The City may make an equity investment in or a loan to an enterprise pursuant to &lt;cite data-path="27|§27-6"&gt;this section&lt;/cite&gt; or may guarantee a loan made by a private lender to an enterprise or procure a third party to guarantee a loan to an enterprise pursuant to &lt;cite data-path="27|§27-7"&gt;Section 27-7&lt;/cite&gt; in any combination which the City, in its sole and absolute discretion, deems appropriate.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1984, ch. 745</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1986, ch. 595</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1990, ch. 6</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1995, ch. 3</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
