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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="10-328" 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">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Authority shall set aside a sufficient amount of the revenues derived from a project in a sinking fund or other similar fund at regular intervals to the extent required in the trust agreement.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The sinking fund is pledged to pay:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the principal of and the interest on the bonds as they become due; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the redemption or purchase price of bonds retired by call or purchase as specified in the trust agreement.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>To the extent provided in the trust agreement, the Authority may exclude from the amount to be deposited in the sinking fund the revenues that may be necessary:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to pay for project maintenance, repair, and operation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>for reserves; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>for improvements to the project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The pledge of revenues under subsection (a) of this section is valid and binding from the time the pledge is made.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The rates, rents, charges, fees, and other revenue or money that the Authority pledges and receives are subject immediately to the lien of the pledge.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Neither physical delivery of the rates, rents, charges, fees, and other revenue or money nor any other act is required to validate the lien.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The lien of the pledge is valid and binding against each party with a claim against the Authority in tort, contract, or otherwise, regardless of whether the party has notice of the lien.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The trust agreement and any other agreement or lease creating a pledge under this section need not be filed or recorded, except in the records of the Authority.</text>
  </level>
</section>
