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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="8-104" title_number="8" title_name="Community Action Agencies" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A political subdivision may designate a community action agency to serve a community within the political subdivision or may change or revoke a designation by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an act, an ordinance, or a resolution of its governing body; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an order of its chief executive, if the chief legal officer certifies in writing that the chief executive has power to make the designation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The governing body shall notify the public and hold a public hearing before a designation is made, changed, or revoked.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A transition or close-down plan shall accompany the notification of a proposed change or revocation of a designation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A change in or revocation of a designation takes effect at the start of the State fiscal year.</text>
  </level>
</section>
