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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="24-601" title_number="24" title_name="Miscellaneous Provisions" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Community Mental Health, Addiction, and Developmental Disabilities Facilities Capital Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Facility” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A public community mental health facility, addiction facility, or developmental disabilities facility that is wholly owned by and operated under the authority of a county or a municipal corporation, or both; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A nonprofit community mental health facility, addiction facility, or developmental disabilities facility that is wholly owned by and operated under the authority of a nonprofit organization.</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 the facility, the purchase of equipment to be used in the facility, or the expansion of the 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 the facility, the purchase of equipment to be used in the facility, or the expansion of the 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 30 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">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The lessor consents to the recording, in the land records of the political subdivision in which the facility is located, of a notice of the State’s right of recovery, as provided under § 24-606 of this subtitle; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The lease agreement is with the State for a State-owned building or State-owned property.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
