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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="11-301" title_number="11" title_name="Military Installation Support" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Local Redevelopment Authorities">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Authority” means a corporation incorporated in accordance with this subtitle to act as a local redevelopment authority in accordance with criteria set by the United States Department of Defense or its military services under the federal Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Authority” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Bainbridge Development Corporation; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Holabird Working Group/Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC).</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Board” means the Board of Directors of an authority.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Bond” means a bond or note issued on behalf of an authority under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Bond” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a bond anticipation note;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a revenue anticipation note;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a grant anticipation note;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a refunding bond;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a note in the nature of commercial paper; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>any other evidence of indebtedness issued on behalf of the authority, whether a general or limited obligation of the authority.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Cost” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the purchase price of a project;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the cost to acquire any right, title, or interest in a project;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the amount to be paid to discharge each obligation necessary or desirable to vest title to any part of a project in the authority or other owner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the cost of any improvement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the cost of any property, right, easement, franchise, and permit;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>the cost of labor and equipment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>financing charges;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>interest before and during construction and, if the authority determines, for a limited period after the completion of construction;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>reserves for principal and interest and for improvements;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>the cost of revenue estimates, engineering and legal services, plans, designs, specifications, surveys, investigations, demonstrations, studies, estimates of cost, and other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility of an acquisition or improvement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>administrative expenses; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>other expenses necessary or incident to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>financing a project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>acquiring and improving a project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>placing a project in operation, including reasonable provision for working capital; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>operating and maintaining a project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Finance” includes refinance.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Improve” means to add, alter, construct, equip, expand, extend, improve, install, reconstruct, rehabilitate, remodel, or repair.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Improvement” means addition, alteration, construction, equipping, expansion, extension, improvement, installation, reconstruction, rehabilitation, remodeling, or repair.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Person” has the meaning stated in § 9-101 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Person” also includes a political subdivision.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Project” means an undertaking to establish economic activity under this subtitle on property to be conveyed to an authority by the United States Department of Defense or a military service, whether or not a facility or property used or useful in connection with the undertaking:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is or will be used for profit or not for profit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is located on a single site or multiple sites; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>may be financed by bonds, the interest on which is exempt from taxation under federal law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Project” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>property and rights related to the property, appurtenances, rights-of-way, franchises, and easements;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>structures, equipment, and furnishings;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>property that is functionally related and subordinate to the project; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>patents, licenses, and other rights necessary or useful in the improvement or operation of a project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Revenues” means the income, revenue, and other money an authority receives from or in connection with a project.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Revenues” includes grants, rentals, rates, fees, and charges for the use of the services furnished or available.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
