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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="10-213" title_number="10" title_name="Statewide Development Resources and Revenue Authorities" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Maryland Food Center Authority">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the wholesale food dealers and tenants will provide the greatest opportunity of success for a development or project; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the cost of the assistance is the most likely to be recouped.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To assist a wholesale food dealer or tenant, the Authority may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>acquire, by negotiation and purchase, the land, structures, equipment, or leases, or an interest in them, of the wholesale food dealer or tenant; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
