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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="18-114" title_number="18" title_name="Local Economic Development" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Parking Authorities Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>To carry out the purposes of this subtitle, an authority may issue revenue bonds to finance the cost of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>acquiring property; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>establishing, constructing, altering, improving, or equipping a facility.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each bond issue shall be authorized by a resolution approved by a vote of at least four members of the authority.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An authority shall determine that a bond issue is necessary to achieve one or more of the authority’s purposes before issuing bonds under this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The resolution authorizing the bond issue shall include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the determination that a bond issue is necessary;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a statement that the authority will acquire the vehicle parking facility or related project in accordance with this subtitle and local law;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a determination of the probable useful life of the project or average probable useful life of the projects to be financed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>an estimate of the cost of the project to be financed and the portion to be defrayed from any sources that shall be specifically named, other than the proposed bond issue;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the procedure for the sale of the proposed bond issue;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>a description sufficient for purposes of identification of each of the projects to be financed by the bond issue; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>a finding that the amount of the proposed bond issue is sufficient to complete at least a useful portion of each project to be financed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of the Code or any recitals of the bond, the bonds are negotiable instruments.</text>
  </level>
</section>
