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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="9-204" title_number="9" title_name="Community Reinvestment Fund" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Community Reinvestment Board">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the requirements of this title, the organizational documents of the Fund shall govern the operation of the Board, including quorum and voting requirements.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Board has all powers arising from the documents and procedures creating and organizing the Fund as an independent legal entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Board shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>operate the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>keep proper records of the Board’s accounts;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>establish standards and guidelines for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the terms and conditions of community reinvestment assistance and other Fund reinvestments; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>allocating community reinvestment assistance and other Fund investments;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>apportion among Fund transactions the operating costs of the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>within the first 90 days of each fiscal year, make an annual report of Fund activities to the Governor and, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, to the General Assembly.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board shall appoint a loan committee to review and make determinations on specific requests or categories of requests for community reinvestment assistance to community reinvestment projects.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The loan committee may review and make recommendations to the Board on other matters as the Board determines, including eligibility guidelines and financing policies for community reinvestment projects.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The loan committee consists of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Secretary of Housing and Community Development and the Secretary of Commerce or their designees as nonvoting members; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the voting members that the Board appoints or their designees.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
