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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="10-835" title_number="10" title_name="Statewide Development Resources and Revenue Authorities" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Maryland Clean Energy Center">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is a Maryland Energy Innovation Fund in the University System of Maryland.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Fund shall be used by the Institute and the Center.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Institute:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>may use the Fund to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>carry out the purposes of this subtitle, including the purposes listed in § 10–834 of this subtitle;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>purchase advisory services and technical assistance to better support economic development; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>pay the administrative, legal, and actuarial expenses of the Institute; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>shall use the Fund for the administrative and operating costs of the Center.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Center may use the Fund to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>make a grant or a loan under this subtitle, at the rate of interest the Center sets;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provide equity investment financing for a business enterprise under this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>guarantee a loan, an equity, an investment, or any other private financing to expand the capital resources of a business enterprise under this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Institute shall manage and supervise the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund is a special, nonlapsing revolving fund that is not subject to reversion under § 7–302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>money appropriated by the State to the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>money contributed to the Fund through federal programs or private entities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>repayment of principal of a loan made from the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>payment of interest on a loan made from the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>proceeds from the sale, disposition, lease, or rental by the Center of collateral related to financing that the Center provides from the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>premiums, fees, royalties, interest, repayments of principal, and returns on investments paid to the Center by or on behalf of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a business enterprise in which the Center has made an investment from the Fund; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an investor providing an investment guaranteed by the Center from the Fund;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>recovery of an investment made by the Center in a business enterprise from the Fund, including an arrangement under which the Center’s investment in the business enterprise is recovered through:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a requirement that the Fund receive a proportion of cash flow, commission, royalty, or payment on a patent; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the repurchase from the Center of any evidence of indebtedness or other financial participation made from the Fund, including a note, stock, bond, or debenture;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>repayment of a conditional grant extended by the Center from the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>money transferred to the Fund in accordance with § 9–20B–05 of the State Government Article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>any other money made available to the Institute for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall invest the money in the same manner as other State money may be invested.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any interest earnings of the Fund shall be credited to the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>Money expended from the Fund under this subtitle is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated for the Center, the Institute, or any part of the University System of Maryland.</text>
  </level>
</section>
