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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-1708" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="17" subtitle_name="Self-Help Homeownership Technical Assistance Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Department may award a technical assistance grant to a political subdivision or nonprofit organization to help families of limited income that are owner–builders or self–help rehabilitators.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A technical assistance grant under this section shall be used to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>help, train, and supervise owner–builders and self–help rehabilitators in self–help construction activities and techniques;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>help in project development, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>preparing plans for self–help housing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>preparing contracts for professional services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>applying for financing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>packaging applications for assistance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>preparing subdivision maps;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>reviewing engineering plans and specifications for construction and rehabilitation projects; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>complying with the requirements of political subdivisions and funding entities; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>pay the administrative costs of providing technical assistance for the activity that the Department finances.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A technical assistance grant may not be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>used to purchase land, materials, tools, or construction equipment or to pay for construction costs; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>awarded for a project of fewer than six dwellings.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
