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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="21-410" title_number="21" title_name="Special Taxing Districts" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Municipal Special Taxing Districts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The purpose of the authority granted under this part is to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>finance, refinance, or reimburse the cost of establishing, acquiring, designing, constructing, altering, or extending adequate infrastructure improvements as necessary for the development and use of land in any defined geographic region in the municipality, including storm drainage systems, sewers, water systems, roads, bridges, culverts, tunnels, sidewalks, lighting, parking, parks and recreation facilities, libraries, and schools; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>provide a source of funding for payment of costs of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>infrastructure improvements located in or supporting a transit–oriented development or a State hospital redevelopment; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>operation and maintenance of infrastructure improvements located in or supporting a transit–oriented development or a State hospital redevelopment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An infrastructure improvement financed under subsection (a)(1) of this section may be located:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>in the special taxing district;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in the municipality, outside the special taxing district if the infrastructure improvement is reasonably related to other infrastructure improvements in the special taxing district; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>outside the municipality if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the infrastructure improvement is reasonably related to other infrastructure improvements in the special taxing district; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>notice is given to the governmental unit having jurisdiction over the infrastructure improvement.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>For the purposes of this part and any authority granted by this part, a sustainable community, as defined in § 6–201 of the Housing and Community Development Article, shall be considered the same as a transit–oriented development.</text>
  </level>
</section>
