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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="10-405" title_number="10" title_name="Department of Aging" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Continuing Care">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Continuing Care Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is a Continuing Care Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to defray the costs of administering this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Department of Aging shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>all fees collected under this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>money appropriated in the State budget to the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>investment earnings of the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>any other money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Fund may be used only for the purposes specified in this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall invest the money of the Fund in the same manner as other State money may be invested.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any investment earnings of the Fund shall be paid into the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>Money expended from the Fund for administering this subtitle is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated for administering this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
