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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-640" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Sanitary Commissions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “governmental agency” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The federal government;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An agency or instrumentality of the federal government or this State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A district may borrow from a governmental agency the amount of money that the sanitary commission considers necessary to pay the organization and planning costs for a project or a service area, including costs for:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Engineering services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Legal services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Estimates of costs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Estimates of revenue;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Plans or specifications; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Surveys.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A district may not pay interest on money borrowed from a governmental agency under this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a district borrows from a governmental agency under this section, the district shall repay the lending governmental agency:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>When work begins on the water system or sewerage system for which the borrowing was made; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Only from funds or bond revenues that, under this subtitle, relate to the project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
