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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="24-701" title_number="24" title_name="Miscellaneous Provisions" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Adult Day Care Centers Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Adult day care center” means a nonresidential center that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Serves the elderly, medically handicapped adults, or victims of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Meets the definition in § 14-201(b) or § 14-301(b) of this article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is licensed by the Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Facility” means an adult day care center that is wholly owned by and operated under the authority of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A county or a municipal corporation; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A nonprofit organization.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <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="e">
    <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">
      <text>The lessor consents to the recording, in the land records of the county or Baltimore City in which the facility is located, of a notice of the State’s right of recovery, as provided under § 24-706 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
