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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="24-1601" title_number="24" title_name="Miscellaneous Provisions" subtitle_number="16" subtitle_name="Community Dental Clinics Grant Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Community dental clinic” means a nonprofit organization that provides dental services and is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A health care center or program that offers dental services:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Free of cost or on a sliding scale fee schedule; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Without regard to an individual’s ability to pay; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Wholly owned and operated under the authority of a county, municipal corporation, or nonprofit organization.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Community dental clinic” does not include a federally qualified health center or a federally qualified health center look–alike.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Nonprofit organization” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A bona fide religious organization, no part of the earnings of which inures to the benefit of any individual or is used for any purpose other than the maintenance and operation of a facility, the purchase of equipment to be used in a facility, or the expansion of a facility; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An organization:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>That is chartered as a nonprofit corporation and classified by the Internal Revenue Service as nonprofit; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>No part of the earnings of which inures to the benefit of any individual or is used for any purpose other than the maintenance and operation of a facility, the purchase of equipment to be used in a facility, or the expansion of a facility.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Wholly owned” includes leased, if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The lease is for a minimum term of 15 years following project completion; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The lease agreement extends the right of purchase to the lessee; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The lessor consents to the recording, in the land records of the county or Baltimore City where the facility is located, of a notice of the State’s right of recovery as provided under § 24–1606 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
