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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="16-201" title_number="16" title_name="Montgomery County" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Bonds">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Montgomery County may provide by local law for the county’s guarantee of the principal and interest on bonds that the Montgomery Commission issues:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to finance the acquisition, provision, development, or rehabilitation of housing at rental rates and prices not being offered in adequate quantity by the private sector; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>to finance wholly or partly:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>mortgage loans secured by the housing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>fund-related reserves and costs that are approved under this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>When a mortgage loan is financed partly by bonds guaranteed by Montgomery County and partly by bonds not so guaranteed, the part of the mortgage loan that is financed by bonds not so guaranteed shall be insured by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the Federal Housing Administration;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Maryland Housing Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a private mortgage insurer that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>authorized to do business in the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>approved by the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal National Mortgage Loan Corporation; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>more than one of these insurers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
