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<section article="gec" article_name="Economic Development" number="12-111" title_number="12" title_name="Local Development Authorities and Resources" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Economic Development Revenue Bond Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>For each issue of its bonds, the legislative body of a county or municipal corporation, the board of directors of an authority, or the Maryland Industrial Development Financing Authority, shall adopt a resolution that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>specifies and describes the facility;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>generally describes the public purpose to be served and the financing transaction;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>specifies the maximum principal amount of the bonds that may be issued; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>imposes terms or conditions on the issuance and sale of bonds it considers appropriate.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The legislative body of a county or municipal corporation, the board of directors of an authority, or the Maryland Industrial Development Financing Authority, by resolution, may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>specify, determine, prescribe, and approve matters, documents, and procedures that relate to the authorization, sale, security, issuance, delivery, and payment of and for the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>create security for the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>provide for the administration of bond issues through trust or other agreements with a bank or trust company that cover a countersignature on a bond, the delivery of a bond, or the security for a bond; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>take other action it considers appropriate concerning the bonds.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The legislative body of a county or municipal corporation, the board of directors of an authority, or the Maryland Industrial Development Financing Authority may authorize a designee to exercise the powers provided under paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A designee may be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a finance board, which shall act by resolution;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the chief executive, who shall act by executive order or otherwise; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>any other appropriate administrative officer, who shall act by order or otherwise with the approval of the chief executive.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Subject to the limitations of this subtitle and the limitations the legislative body prescribes by resolution, a chief executive or an administrative officer acting under a resolution of a legislative body shall exercise the authority granted:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to accomplish the legislative purposes of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>to accomplish the public purposes of the resolution that the legislative body adopts.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A resolution or trust agreement may contain a pledge or assignment of revenues received from the financing of a facility.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The lien of the pledge or assignment made is valid and binding against a person with a claim against the public body, whether or not the person has notice of the lien.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other public general or public local law, a public body need not file or record a resolution, trust agreement, lease, installment sale agreement, loan agreement, or other instrument that it adopts or makes under this subtitle, except in the records of the public body.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A resolution adopted under this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is administrative in nature;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is not subject to procedures required for legislative acts;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>is not subject to referendum; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>in a county or municipal corporation that has a publicly elected chief executive, is subject to approval by the chief executive.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>This authorization is self-executing, and fully authorizes a public body to issue and sell bonds, notwithstanding any other statutory or charter provision.</text>
  </level>
</section>
