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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-125" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Health Care Planning and Systems Regulation">
  <text>A certificate of need is required before an ambulatory care facility:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Offers any health service:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Through a health care facility;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>In space leased from a health care facility; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>In space on land leased from a health care facility;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>To provide those services, makes an expenditure, if a certificate of need would be required under § 19-120(k) of this subtitle for the expenditure by or on behalf of a health care facility; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Does anything else for which the federal act requires a certificate of need and that the Commission has not exempted from that requirement.</text>
  </level>
</section>
