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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="16-204" title_number="16" title_name="Montgomery County" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Bonds">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On determining to issue bonds, the Montgomery Commission shall provide to the County Executive information about the bonds and the housing projects benefiting from the bond proceeds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The information shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the terms and conditions of the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an estimate of the bond interest rate and the basis for the estimate;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the estimated timing and other provisions about the advertising and sale of the bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>a description of the proposed housing project, with detailed estimates of construction and related costs to make it ready to rent or sell;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>detailed estimates of operating costs and debt service;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>schedules of reserves for depreciation and major maintenance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>separate schedules that show how, after allowance for vacancies, revenues are expected to cover:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>operating costs;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>debt service and capital costs; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>reserves for depreciation and major maintenance;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>separate schedules that:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>show the cost, benefit, and effect on rent schedules of added safeguards to ensure solvency of the housing project;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>address devices such as mortgage insurance and debt service reserves; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>state the recommendation of the Montgomery Commission on use of those devices;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>a description of the terms and conditions for construction of the housing project, including any safeguards against construction default and the conditions under which construction financing is to be provided by the Montgomery Commission; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>a description of the accounting system for recording and controlling expenditures of bond funds, debt service, operating costs, reserves, and revenues.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each housing project shall be established as an independent accounting entity for revenues, expenditures, debt service, and reserves.</text>
  </level>
</section>
