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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="10-101" title_number="10" title_name="Statewide Development Resources and Revenue Authorities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Maryland Economic Development Corporation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Bond” means a bond or note of the Corporation issued under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Bond” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a bond anticipation note;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a revenue anticipation note;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a grant anticipation note;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a refunding bond;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a note in the nature of commercial paper; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>any other evidence of indebtedness of the Corporation, whether a general or limited obligation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Corporation” means the Maryland Economic Development Corporation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Cost” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the purchase price of a project;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the cost to acquire any right, title, or interest in a project;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the cost of any improvement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the amount to be paid to discharge each obligation necessary or desirable to vest title to any part of the project in the Corporation or other owner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the cost of any property, right, easement, franchise, and permit;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>the cost of labor and equipment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>financing charges;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>interest before and during construction and, if the Corporation determines, for a limited period after the completion of construction;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>reserves for principal and interest and for improvements;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>the cost of revenue and cost estimates, engineering and legal services, plans, specifications, studies, surveys, demonstrations, and other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility of an acquisition or improvement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>administrative expenses; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>other expenses as necessary or incident to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>financing a project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>acquiring and improving a project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>placing a project in operation by the Corporation or other owner, including reasonable provision for working capital; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>operating and maintaining a project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Finance” includes refinance.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Governmental unit” means a county, municipal corporation, unit of State or local government, or other public body created under State or local law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Improve” means to add, alter, construct, equip, expand, extend, improve, install, reconstruct, rehabilitate, remodel, or repair.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Improvement” means addition, alteration, construction, equipping, expansion, extension, improvement, installation, reconstruction, rehabilitation, remodeling, or repair.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Person” has the meaning stated in § 9–101 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Person” also includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a person that is created, owned, or controlled by the Corporation or of which the Corporation is a member;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a for–profit or nonprofit entity; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a governmental unit.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Project” means any property, the acquisition or improvement of which the Board, in its sole discretion, determines by resolution will accomplish at least one of the legislative purposes listed in § 10–104(b) of this subtitle, whether or not the property:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is or will be used or operated for profit or not for profit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is or will be located on a single site or multiple sites; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>may be financed by bonds, the interest on which is exempt from income taxation under federal law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Project” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>land or an interest in land;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>structures, equipment, furnishings, rail or motor vehicles, barges, and boats;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>property and rights related to the property, appurtenances, rights–of–way, franchises, and easements;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>property that is functionally related and subordinate to property described in this subsection; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>patents, licenses, and other rights necessary or useful in the improvement or operation of a project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Revenues” means the income, revenue, and other money the Corporation receives from or in connection with a project, and all other income of the Corporation, subject to § 10–115(11) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Revenues” includes grants, rentals, rates, fees, and charges for the use of the services furnished or available.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
