# Economic Development (GEC)

## Title 10. Statewide Development Resources and Revenue Authorities

### Subtitle 5. Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation

#### Section 10-514

(a)

  (1) This section does not prevent the Corporation from pledging its full faith and credit to the payment of a bond.

  (2) This section does not limit the ability of the State or a political subdivision to impose an assessment, rate, fee, or charge to pay to the Corporation any cost, including the principal of and interest on a bond, under an agreement between the Corporation and the State or political subdivision.

(b)

  (1) A bond:

    (i) is not a debt, liability, or a pledge of the full faith and credit of the State or of any political subdivision; and

    (ii) is payable solely from revenues provided under this subtitle.

  (2) The issuance of a bond is not directly, indirectly, or contingently a moral or other obligation of the State or a political subdivision to levy or pledge any tax or to make an appropriation to pay the bond.

  (3) Each bond shall state on its face that:

    (i) neither the State nor a political subdivision, other than the Corporation, is obliged to pay the principal of or interest on the bond, except from revenues pledged to payment of the bond; and

    (ii) neither the full faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State or a political subdivision is pledged to the payment of the principal of or interest on the bond.

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Md. Code Ann., Econ. Dev. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)