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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="10-344" 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 Maryland Health Care Commission shall notify in writing:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Authority and the Health Services Cost Review Commission when a hospital files a written notice of intent to close under § 19–120(l) of the Health – General Article; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Authority when a petition for delicensure of a hospital is filed with the Secretary of Health under § 19–325 of the Health – General Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Commission shall give the notice required by this subsection within 5 days after the date of the filing.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Secretary of Health shall notify the Authority and the Health Services Cost Review Commission in writing of each determination to delicense a hospital under § 19–325 of the Health – General Article at least 150 days before the scheduled date of delicensure.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The notifications under this section shall include the name and location of the hospital and the scheduled date of its closure or delicensure.</text>
  </level>
</section>
