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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-201" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Community Development Administration">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Business project” means a project that qualifies under § 4–223 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Commercial building” means any building that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is used primarily to carry on a business whether or not for profit;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is not a residential building; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>is not used primarily to manufacture or produce raw materials, products, or agricultural commodities.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Commercial energy audit” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an energy audit performed for purposes of Title VII of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6201 through 6422; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an onsite inspection of a commercial building that includes a determination of, and provides information on:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the type, quantity, and rate of energy consumption of the building;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the maintenance and operation procedures to reduce the energy consumption of the building; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the cost of implementing an appropriate energy conservation project, a solar energy project, or both, and the savings in energy costs likely to result from the project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Community development project” means a project that qualifies under § 4–217 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Development costs” means the costs that the Department considers reasonable and necessary to carry out:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a community development project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an energy conservation project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a home improvement project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>an infrastructure project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a public purpose project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>a solar energy project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>a special housing facility; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>a business project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Development costs” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the costs of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>studies, surveys, plans and specifications, and architectural, engineering, or other special services;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>acquisition of land and any buildings on the land;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>site preparation and development, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and improvement; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>acquisition of machinery, equipment, and furnishings;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>expenses incurred in connection with initial occupancy or operation of the project;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the Department;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the cost of financing the project, including interest on bonds and notes issued to finance the project from the date issued to the date the Department determines that the project is substantially occupied or substantially in operation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>the cost of other items, including indemnity and surety bonds, premiums on insurance, fees, relocation costs, and charges and expenses of trustees, depositories, and paying agents for bonds and notes issued; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>operating and expansion costs for business projects.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Director” means the Director of the Administration.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Energy conservation project” means a project that qualifies under § 4–218 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Family of limited income” means a family or individual whose income does not exceed the upper income limits established by the Secretary under § 4–212 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Home improvement project” means a project that qualifies under § 4–219 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Infrastructure project” means a project that qualifies under § 4–220 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Limited dividend corporation” means a corporation that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>qualifies as a limited dividend corporation under the Moderate–Income Rental Program of the National Housing Act, Title 12, Chapter 13 of the United States Code; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is operated only to further a community development project.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Local development agency” means the governmental unit of a political subdivision that the chief executive officer of the political subdivision designates to carry out community development under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Local development entity” means a corporation or foundation, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of a private shareholder or individual, that is organized and operated primarily to foster, encourage, and assist community development in the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“Local obligation” means a bond, note, or other obligation of a political subdivision or a governmental unit of a political subdivision.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Public purpose project” means a project that qualifies under § 4–221 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <text>“Residential building” means a single family or multifamily structure that is used primarily for human dwelling and that has a system for heating, cooling, or both.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="r">
    <text>“Residential energy audit” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an inspection or energy audit of a residential building or a dwelling unit in a residential building performed for purposes of Title II or Title VII of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act, Title 42, Chapter 91 of the United States Code; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an onsite inspection of a residential building or a dwelling unit in a residential building that includes a determination of and provides information on:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the type, quantity, and rate of energy consumption of the building or dwelling unit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>maintenance and operating procedures to reduce the energy consumption of the residential building or dwelling unit; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the cost of implementing an appropriate energy conservation project, solar energy project, or both, and the savings in energy costs that are likely to result from the project.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="s">
    <text>“Residential mortgage loan” means a loan, including a temporary loan or advance, that is secured by a mortgage of real property in the State that is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>improved by a residential building; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>unimproved, if the loan proceeds are to be used to construct a residential building.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="t">
    <text>“Solar energy project” means a project that qualifies under § 4–222 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="u">
    <text>“Special housing facility” means a project or undertaking for the refinancing, acquisition, rehabilitation, improvement, renovation, or construction of a building that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>will be occupied in substantial part by families of limited income;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>will provide common, shared, or independent living, dining, kitchen, sanitary, and sleeping facilities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>may include supportive services or supervisory live–in personnel for individuals with specialized housing needs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>may include nonresidential facilities to serve individuals with special needs who need not be residents of the project or undertaking; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>is not subject to § 4–213(b) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="v">
    <text>“Sustainable community” has the meaning stated in § 6–201 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
