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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="10-221" title_number="10" title_name="Statewide Development Resources and Revenue Authorities" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Maryland Food Center Authority">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Authority may secure a bond by a trust agreement between the Authority and a corporate trustee.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A corporate trustee may be any trust company or bank that has the powers of a trust company in or outside the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The trust agreement or the resolution that provides for the issuance of a bond may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>provide for the protection and enforcement of rights and remedies of bondholders, including covenants setting forth the duties of the Authority in relation to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>acquisition, improvement, maintenance, operation, and insurance of the development or project; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>custody, safeguarding, and application of money;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>provide for the rights and remedies of bondholders and of the trustee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>restrict the individual right of action by bondholders as is customary in trust agreements securing bonds of corporations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>provide for the deposit of the proceeds of the sale of bonds and the revenue of a development or project with an officer, board, or depositary that the Authority designates as custodian; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>provide for the method of disbursing the proceeds and revenues with safeguards and restrictions that the Authority determines.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection and § 10-222 of this subtitle, a trust agreement may pledge or assign revenues to be received from the development or project.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>No portion of a development or project may be conveyed or mortgaged without the express consent of the Board of Public Works.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The trust agreement may authorize the use of money realized from the sale or disposition of any of the property of a development or project to pay principal of and interest on the bonds.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Expenses incurred in carrying out a trust agreement may be treated as part of the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of a development or project.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A bank or trust company incorporated in the State may act as a depositary of the proceeds of the bonds or the revenues and furnish indemnity bonds or pledge securities as required by the Authority.</text>
  </level>
</section>
