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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="1-1105" title_number="1" title_name="Definitions; General Provisions" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Clean Energy Loan Programs">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to subsection (c) of this section, a program shall require a property owner to repay a loan provided under the program through a surcharge on the owner’s property tax bill.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except for a surcharge authorized under subsection (c) of this section, a county or municipality may not set a surcharge greater than an amount that allows the county or municipality to recover the costs associated with:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>issuing bonds to finance the loan; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>administering the program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>With the express consent of any holder of a mortgage or deed of trust on a commercial property that is to be financed through a loan to the commercial property owner under the program:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a county or municipality may collect loan payments owed to a private lender or to the county or the municipality for a loan to a commercial property owner, and costs associated with administering the program, through a surcharge on the property owner’s property tax bill;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an unpaid surcharge under this subsection shall be, until paid, a lien on the real property on which it is imposed from the date it becomes payable; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the provisions of Title 14, Subtitle 8 of the Tax – Property Article that apply to a tax lien shall also apply to a lien created under this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A person who acquires property subject to a surcharge under this section assumes the obligation to pay the surcharge.</text>
  </level>
</section>
