<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="18-101" title_number="18" title_name="Queen Anne'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>“Board of County Commissioners” means the Board of County Commissioners of Queen Anne’s County.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>“Housing project” means a work or undertaking to provide housing for persons of eligible income.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Housing project” includes:</text> <level label="i"> <text>buildings, land, improvements, and other real or personal property that is planned, acquired, owned, used, developed, reconstructed, rehabilitated, or improved; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>streets, roads, sewers, water service, and supporting public or private commercial, educational, cultural, recreational, community, and civic facilities that are needed for sound community development.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>“Person of eligible income” means an individual or a family that lacks sufficient income or assets without financial assistance to live in decent, safe, and sanitary housing without overcrowding.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <text>“Queen Anne’s Authority” means the Housing Authority of Queen Anne’s County.</text> </level> </section> <section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="18-102" title_number="18" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_number="1"> <text>Title 12 of this article applies to the Queen Anne’s Authority except where it is inconsistent with this title.</text> </section> <section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="18-103" title_number="18" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_number="1"> <text>The Housing Authority of Queen Anne’s County is a public body corporate and politic that:</text> <level label="1"> <text>exercises public and essential governmental functions; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>has all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this Division II.</text> </level> </section> <section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="18-104" title_number="18" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_number="1"> <level label="a"> <text>This section does not apply if its application would disqualify the State or a county from receiving federal money.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>The Board of County Commissioners shall:</text> <level label="i"> <text>adopt policies, regulations, or amendments that are necessary to implement:</text> <level label="1"> <text>federally or State assisted housing programs; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>locally funded housing programs undertaken in accordance with this Division II;</text> </level> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>review and approve each housing project that the Queen Anne’s Authority proposes before the housing project is started; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>establish maximum income limits for persons of eligible income.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>For special housing projects, the Board of County Commissioners may establish exceptions to the maximum income limits for persons of eligible income.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="18-105" title_number="18" title_name="Queen Anne's County" subtitle_number="1"> <level label="a"> <text>Subject to the power of the Board of County Commissioners under § 18-104 of this title, the Queen Anne’s Authority, in addition to the powers listed elsewhere in this Division II or any other law, may:</text> <level label="1"> <text>make mortgage loans;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>make rent subsidy payments to or for persons of eligible income;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>make construction loans and long-term mortgage loans to a person to produce housing for persons of eligible income; or</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>waive maximum income limits for persons 65 years of age or older.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Queen Anne’s Authority may sell its bonds at public or private sale in the manner and on the terms that it authorizes by resolution.</text> </level> </section>