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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="12-110" title_number="12" title_name="Local Development Authorities and Resources" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Economic Development Revenue Bond Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Notwithstanding any limitation of law, a public body may issue and sell bonds periodically to accomplish the legislative purposes of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A public body may issue and sell bonds to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, finance the costs of the acquisition or improvement of a facility for a facility user, including working capital;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>refund outstanding bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>pay the costs of preparing, printing, selling, and issuing the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>fund reserves; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>pay the interest on the bonds in the amount and for the period the public body considers reasonable.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A public body may not issue bonds to acquire working capital unless the bonds are secured by a letter of credit or an interest in property.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Working capital acquired by issuing bonds may not exceed 25% of the principal amount of the bonds.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Bonds are limited obligations and are not a pledge of the faith and credit or taxing power of the public body.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Bonds issued by an authority are issued on behalf of the public body that established the authority.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Bonds issued by the Maryland Industrial Development Financing Authority:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>are issued on behalf of the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>shall be issued in accordance with the Maryland Industrial Development Financing Authority Act, Title 5, Subtitle 7 of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A bond:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>may be in bearer form;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may be registrable as to principal alone or as to both principal and interest; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is a “security” as defined by § 8-102 of the Commercial Law Article, whether or not the bond is one of a class or series or is divisible into a class or series of instruments.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A bond shall be signed by the chief executive or by an officer designated by resolution of the public body.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A bond may be executed by facsimile signature in accordance with § 2-303 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The seal of the public body shall be affixed to the bond and attested by the clerk or similar administrative officer of the public body designated by resolution.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>An officer’s signature or countersignature on a bond or coupon remains valid even if the officer leaves office before the bond is delivered.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, a bond shall mature not later than 30 years after its date of issue.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If a bond is secured by a mortgage insured by a unit of the federal government, the bond shall have a term of maturity that does not exceed the term of the insurance.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A public body may acquire or improve a facility with bond proceeds:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>by leasing the facility to a facility user;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>by selling the facility to a facility user under an installment sale agreement;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>by lending bond proceeds to a facility user to be used to finance a facility; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>in any other manner that the public body considers appropriate to accomplish the legislative purposes of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The lease of a facility under this subtitle may authorize or require the facility user to acquire the facility on payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds applicable to the facility user.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The consideration for the acquisition of the facility may be nominal.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
