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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="6-308.1" title_number="6" title_name="Division of Neighborhood Revitalization" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Neighborhood Business Development Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If the Department determines that an entity is capable of administering financial assistance under the Program, the entity may originate and administer financial assistance in accordance with standards the Department adopts by regulation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Department shall adopt regulations to establish standards for determining the eligibility of an entity to administer financial assistance under the Program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The standards shall include provisions on:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the size, training, and experience of the professional staff that would administer the financial assistance; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the capability of the professional staff to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>determine financial capacity of a borrower;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>originate financial assistance; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>evaluate applications for financial assistance.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Department may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>help train employees of an approved entity to administer financial assistance in accordance with standards that the Department adopts;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>charge and collect from a borrower:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>reasonable origination, application, and processing fees; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>other charges, fees, or reimbursements incidental to the financial assistance;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>include the fees and charges listed in item (2) of this subsection in the amount of financial assistance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>pay an approved entity a reasonable origination, application, and processing fee for the financial assistance that is originated by the approved entity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>directly fund the financial assistance that is originated by an approved entity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>provide financial assistance to an approved entity for the purpose of the approved entity making the financial assistance in accordance with this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>purchase or commit to purchase from approved entities any form of financial assistance that meets the requirements of this subtitle and any regulations adopted under this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>enter into agreements with approved entities to collectively lend money on a project that meets the requirements of this subtitle and any regulations adopted under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
