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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-927" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Maryland Housing Rehabilitation Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is an Indoor Plumbing Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Department shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>operate the Indoor Plumbing Program; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>make loans for rehabilitation projects that provide for adequate indoor plumbing from the Special Loan Programs Fund under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The terms for indoor plumbing loans shall meet the requirements of §§ 4-917 through 4-919 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Department may forgive all or part of a deferred payment loan, if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the loan is made to a family of limited income that owns and occupies the dwelling and whose income is within a lower income range established under § 4-916(b) of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Secretary determines that the family of limited income does not have enough income to repay the principal amount of the loan.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>To qualify for an indoor plumbing loan, an applicant shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>own a building that is otherwise structurally sound, or for which the applicant provides a commitment from a lender to finance improvements needed to make the building structurally sound, and that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>has no or incomplete indoor plumbing or a failing septic system; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>needs indoor plumbing pipes, equipment, wells, septic tanks or other on-site sewer system, or a connection to a community water or sewer system;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>live in the building and be a family of limited income, or rent at least two-thirds of the dwellings in the building to families of limited income; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>submit to the Department a proposal for installing an adequate indoor plumbing system for water supply and sewage disposal, including any needed septic system, well, or connection to a community sewer or water system that meets the requirements of the Department of the Environment and every other governmental unit that has jurisdiction over the system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
