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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="22-102" title_number="22" title_name="Resilience Infrastructure" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A local government may create a Resilience Authority by local law in accordance with this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A local law adopted under this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is administrative in nature; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is not subject to referendum.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law or charter provision, subsection (a) of this section is self–executing and fully authorizes a local government to establish a Resilience Authority.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A local law adopted under subsection (a) of this section shall include proposed articles of incorporation of the Resilience Authority that state:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the name of the Resilience Authority, which shall be “Resilience Authority of (name of the incorporating local government)”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>that the Resilience Authority is formed under this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the names, addresses, and terms of office of the initial members of the board of directors of the Resilience Authority;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the address of the principal office of the Resilience Authority;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the purposes for which the Resilience Authority is formed; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>the powers of the Resilience Authority, subject to the limitations on the powers of a Resilience Authority under this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The chief executive of the incorporating local government, or any other official designated in the local law establishing the Resilience Authority, shall execute and file the articles of incorporation of the Resilience Authority for record with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>When the State Department of Assessments and Taxation accepts the articles of incorporation for record:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Resilience Authority becomes a body politic and corporate and an instrumentality of the incorporating local government; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Chief Executive of the incorporating local government, or any other official designated in the local law establishing the Resilience Authority, shall submit the articles of incorporation, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the House Appropriations Committee and the House Environment and Transportation Committee.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Acceptance of the articles of incorporation for record by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation is conclusive evidence of the formation of the Resilience Authority.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The local governing body shall approve any amendment to the articles of incorporation of the Resilience Authority.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Articles of amendment may contain any provision that lawfully could be contained in articles of incorporation at the time of the amendment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The articles of amendment shall be filed for record with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The articles of amendment are effective as of the time the State Department of Assessments and Taxation accepts the articles for record.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Acceptance of the articles of amendment for record by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation is conclusive evidence that the articles have been lawfully and properly adopted.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to the provisions of this title and any limitations imposed by law on the impairment of contracts, the incorporating local government, in its sole discretion, by local law may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>set or change the powers, structure, organization, procedures, programs, or activities of the Resilience Authority;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>determine the revenue sources of the Resilience Authority, including the use of general fund revenue and general obligation bonds;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>establish the budgetary and financial procedures of the Resilience Authority; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>terminate the Resilience Authority.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On termination of a Resilience Authority:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>title to all property of the Resilience Authority shall be transferred to and be vested in the incorporating local government; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>all obligations of the Resilience Authority shall be transferred to and assumed by the incorporating local government.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
