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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="17-101" title_number="17" title_name="Prince George's County" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Continuing care facility” means a facility in which shelter and medical and nursing services or other health related services are made available:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to an individual who is 60 years old or older and not related by blood or marriage to the provider;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for the life of the individual or for a period exceeding 1 year; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>under a written agreement that requires a transfer of assets or an entrance fee, notwithstanding periodic charges.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Housing project” means a work or undertaking to provide decent, safe, and sanitary urban or rural apartments, or other housing for the persons of eligible income who live in the area of the housing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Housing project” includes buildings, land, equipment, facilities, and other real or personal property that is planned, acquired, owned, used, developed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, or improved to provide:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the housing; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the necessary, convenient, or desirable:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>appurtenances, streets, roads, sewers, water service, parks, site preparation, or gardening; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>supporting public or private administrative, commercial, educational, cultural, recreational, welfare, community, or civic facilities that are needed for sound community development.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Person of eligible income” means an individual or a family that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>lives in the area of operation of the Prince George’s Authority that undertakes a housing project; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>as determined by the Prince George’s Authority, lacks sufficient income without financial assistance to live in decent, safe, and sanitary housing without overcrowding.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Prince George’s Authority” means the Housing Authority of Prince George’s County.</text>
  </level>
</section>
