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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="10-327" title_number="10" title_name="Statewide Development Resources and Revenue Authorities" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Authority may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>fix and collect rates, rents, fees, and charges for the use of a project and for the services furnished or to be furnished by a project; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>contract with a person or governmental entity to exercise its authority under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The rates, rents, fees, and charges established by the Authority under this section shall be fixed and adjusted so that the aggregate amount of the rates, rents, fees, and charges from the project, when added to other available money, is sufficient to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>pay for maintaining, repairing, and operating the project;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds that the Authority issued for the project as they become due and payable; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>create and maintain reserves required or provided for in a trust agreement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The rates, rents, fees, and charges established by the Authority under this section are not subject to supervision or regulation by any unit of the State other than the Authority.</text>
  </level>
</section>
