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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="10-517" title_number="10" title_name="Statewide Development Resources and Revenue Authorities" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Corporation may issue bonds to refund any outstanding bonds, including paying:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>any redemption premium;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption, purchase, or maturity of the bonds; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>if considered advisable by the Corporation, any part of the cost of a project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Refunding bonds may be issued for any corporate purpose, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>realizing savings in the effective costs of debt service, directly or through a debt restructuring;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>alleviating an impending or actual default; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>relieving the Corporation of a contractual agreement that the Corporation finds to be unreasonably onerous, impracticable, or impossible to perform.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Corporation may issue refunding bonds in one or more series in an amount greater than the amount of the bonds to be refunded.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Refunding bonds may be made payable from:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>escrowed bond proceeds;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>earnings and profits, if any, on investments; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>any other source.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>These sources:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>may be applied to other uses; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>constitute revenues of a project under this subtitle.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In the discretion of the Corporation, the proceeds of refunding bonds may be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>applied to the purchase, retirement at maturity, or redemption of outstanding bonds on a date the Corporation determines; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pending application under item (1) of this subsection, placed in escrow.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Corporation may invest escrowed refunding bond proceeds in investments and other obligations, maturing on appropriate dates to assure the prompt payment of the principal of, interest on, and any redemption premium on the bonds to be refunded.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, the Corporation shall determine the investment of the proceeds of refunding bonds.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the Corporation loans the proceeds of refunding bonds to a person as provided in § 10-519 of this subtitle, the loan recipient shall determine the investment of the proceeds of refunding bonds.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The earnings and any profits on investments or other obligations may be applied to the payment of the outstanding bonds to be refunded.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>After the terms of the escrow have been fully satisfied, the balance of the proceeds and earnings and profits on investments or other obligations may be returned to the Corporation or the loan recipient for use in any lawful manner.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
