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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="14-501" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Rules" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Affordable Housing Land Trusts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Affordable housing land trust” means an entity that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Provides affordable housing to low–income families and moderate–income families through an affordable housing land trust agreement; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is organized or managed by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A nonprofit organization exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(2), (3), or (4) of the United States Internal Revenue Code; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A unit or instrumentality of the State or a political subdivision of the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Affordable housing land trust agreement” means an agreement between an affordable housing land trust and a purchaser of real property owned by the affordable housing land trust, or for which the affordable housing land trust has a proprietary or reversionary interest, that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Grants the affordable housing land trust a preemptive right to purchase or repurchase the property, including any improvements on the property;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Contains language restricting the transfer, lease, sublease, assignment, or occupancy of the property with regard to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Potential transferees, sublessees, assignees, or occupants; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The price at which the property may be transferred; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Imposes other conditions on the use or transfer of the property that would trigger a reversionary interest and that are designed to ensure that the property remains available and affordable to low–income families and moderate–income families.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Family” means a household consisting of one or more individuals.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Low–income family” means a household with an income that does not exceed 80% of the area median income for a household of the same size.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Moderate–income family” means a household with an income that does not exceed 140% of the area median income for a household of the same size.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Nonprofit status” means the recognition by the Internal Revenue Service that an affordable housing land trust is exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(2), (3), or (4) of the Internal Revenue Code.</text>
  </level>
</section>
