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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="24-522" title_number="24" title_name="Miscellaneous Education Agencies" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Historic St. Mary's City Commission">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commission may issue bonds to refund any of its bonds then outstanding, including the payment of any redemption premium and any interest accrued or to accrue to the earliest or any subsequent date of redemption, purchase, or maturity of the bonds.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Refunding bonds may be issued:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>For the public purposes of realizing savings in the effective costs of debt service, directly or through a debt restructuring; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>For alleviating impending or actual default; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In one or more series in an amount in excess of that of the bonds to be refunded.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
