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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" citation="COMAR 05.04.09.06" title_num="05" subtitle_num="04" chapter_num="09" heading="Eligible Uses.">
  <text>The proceeds of a mortgage loan may be used to finance:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Purchase of a newly constructed building to provide a group home;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Permanent long-term mortgage financing, including refinancing;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Purchase of an existing building to provide a group home;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Modifications to a building purchased with a loan if the modification improves, repairs, renovates, or rehabilitates the building to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Make it suitable as a group home; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Eliminate housing, building, fire, safety, health, or other code violations;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Closing costs associated with site acquisition, purchase, or refinance of a group home;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Engineering, legal, title, survey, or architectural fees associated with the rehabilitation, purchase, or modification of a group home;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Costs associated with site preparation and evaluation including soil borings, environmental review reports, and testing for environmental hazards;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>A refinance of an existing group home;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="I.">
    <text>Construction costs for a new building to be used as a group home; or</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="J.">
    <text>Other development costs considered reasonable by the Department.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>