# Economic Development (GEC)

## Title 10. Statewide Development Resources and Revenue Authorities

### Subtitle 2. Maryland Food Center Authority

#### Section 10-213

(a) The Authority may assist wholesale food dealers and tenants who want to locate or relocate their operations in a development or project if, in the judgment of the Authority:

  (1) the wholesale food dealers and tenants will provide the greatest opportunity of success for a development or project; and

  (2) the cost of the assistance is the most likely to be recouped.

(b) To assist a wholesale food dealer or tenant, the Authority may:

  (1) acquire, by negotiation and purchase, the land, structures, equipment, or leases, or an interest in them, of the wholesale food dealer or tenant; and

  (2) pay the reasonable expenses of moving personal property that must be moved to locate or relocate the operations of the wholesale food dealer or tenant in a development or project.

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Md. Code Ann., Econ. Dev. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)