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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-229" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Community Development Administration">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the Administration purchases a local obligation, the procedures and requirements for the issuance or sale of the local obligation shall be as provided in §§ 4–230 through 4–233 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notwithstanding any other public general law or public local law, charter, or ordinance, an issuer of a local obligation may sell a local obligation to the Administration to finance an infrastructure project:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>at private or public sale, with or without public bidding;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>without limitation on the denomination of the local obligation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>at any interest rate, cost, or price that the issuer considers necessary or desirable.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The issuer of a local obligation may pay any fee or charge necessary for the Administration to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>sell bonds, notes, or other obligations of the Administration;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provide the financial assistance authorized by § 4–228 of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>provide any other guarantee, credit enhancement, or additional security for a note, bond, or obligation of the Administration; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>insure obligations of the issuer or of the Administration.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Notwithstanding any other public general law, public local law, charter, or ordinance, to enhance the security or the marketability of the bonds, notes, or obligations of the Administration that are sold to finance an infrastructure project:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a political subdivision may agree with the Administration to pledge any money, including a share of income tax, that the political subdivision is entitled to receive from the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>if a political subdivision is a county, the county may agree with the Administration to pledge, on behalf of a municipal corporation located in the county, any money, including a share of income tax, that the county is entitled to receive from the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In accordance with a pledge under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Comptroller and the State Treasurer shall cause the money pledged to be paid to the Administration or a trustee that the Administration designates.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
