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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-116" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Health Care Planning and Systems Regulation">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Secretary shall provide for a study of systems capacity in health services.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The study shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Determine for all health delivery facilities and settings where capacity should be increased or decreased to better meet the needs of the population;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Examine and describe the implementation methods and tools by which capacity should be altered to better meet the needs; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Assess the impact of those methods and tools on the communities and health care delivery system.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In addition to information that an applicant for a certificate of need must provide, the Commission may request, collect, and report any statistical or other information that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is needed by the Commission to perform its duties described in this Part II of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is described in regulations of the Commission.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a health care facility fails to provide information as required in this subsection, the Commission may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Impose a penalty of not more than $100 per day for each day the violation continues after consideration of the willfulness and seriousness of the withholding, as well as any past history of withholding of information;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Issue an administrative order that requires the applicant to provide the information; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Apply to the circuit court in the county in which the facility is located for legal relief considered appropriate by the Commission.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Commission may send to the Department or a local health planning agency any statistical or other information the Commission is authorized to collect under paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
