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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 10.08.02.03" title_num="10" subtitle_num="08" chapter_num="02" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
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  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Acquisition” means purchasing and obtaining ownership of all or part of an existing building for use as a community mental health, addiction, or developmental disabilities facility.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Act” means Health-General Article, §24-601 et seq., Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Addiction” means a disease which is characterized by a pattern of pathological use of alcohol or a drug, or both, with repeated attempts to control the use and with significant negative consequences in at least one of the following areas of life:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Financial;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Legal;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Medical; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Psychosocial.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Addiction facility” means any facility which provides or proposes to provide treatment for an addiction.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Applicant” means a county, a municipal corporation, or a nonprofit organization that seeks to obtain State grant funds under the Act.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Appropriate administration” means the Behavioral Health, Developmental Disabilities, or Prevention and Health Promotion Administration.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Community mental health facility” means a facility where one or more of the following mental health programs is provided, or is proposed to be provided:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Inpatient services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Outpatient services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Partial care services, including day care services and night care services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>24-hour emergency services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Aftercare services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Consultation services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Education services;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>Community rehabilitation services.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Construction.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Construction” means construction of new buildings or additions to existing buildings and initial capital equipment, including plans, specifications, site improvements, surveys, and applicable engineers' and architects' fees.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Construction” does not include the cost of land acquisition and the cost of off-site improvements.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>“Department” means the Maryland Department of Health.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Developmental Disabilities Facility.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Developmental disabilities facility” means any facility which provides or proposes to provide services for individuals with disabilities, whether the facility is  hospital-based, a clinic, vocational, day, or a residential site.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>For purposes of this definition, facility does not include a Veterans' Administration hospital.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>“Facility” means a:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Public community mental health facility, addiction facility, or developmental disabilities facility that is wholly owned by, and operated under, the authority of a county or municipal corporation; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Nonprofit community mental health facility, addiction facility, or developmental disabilities facility that is wholly owned by, and operated under, the authority of a nonprofit organization or corporation.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>“Grantee” means a county, a municipal corporation, or a nonprofit organization or corporation for which State grant funds under the Act are approved by the Board of Public Works.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(13)">
      <text>Initial Capital Equipment.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Initial capital equipment” means items which:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Are necessary to furnish and initially operate a facility;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>With normal maintenance have a life expectancy of at least 15 years; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Are of durable construction.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Initial capital equipment” does not mean items which:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Could be easily lost, damaged, or destroyed during normal usage;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Could be easily stolen;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Are likely to be technically obsolescent within 15 years; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Are intended to replace a similar item already on hand.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(14)">
      <text>“Nonprofit facility” means a facility which is, or will be, wholly owned by and operated under the authority of a nonprofit organization.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(15)">
      <text>“Nonprofit organization” means:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>A bona fide religious organization, or a chartered nonprofit corporation which is classified under §501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code as a nonprofit organization; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>That no part of the organization's or corporation's earnings inures to the benefit of an individual or is used for any purpose other than the maintenance and operation of the facility, the purchase of equipment to be used in the facility, or the expansion of the facility.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(16)">
      <text>“Office of Capital Planning, Budgeting, and Engineering Services” means the office within the Department designated by the Secretary to administer this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(17)">
      <text>“Public facility” means a facility that is wholly owned by and operated under the authority of a county or a municipal corporation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(18)">
      <text>“Renovation” means the work required to restore or modernize, or both, most or all of a facility.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(19)">
      <text>“Secretary” means the Secretary of Health, or a designated representative.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(20)">
      <text>Wholly Owned.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Wholly owned” includes leased property, if the lease agreement is with the State for a State-owned building or State-owned property.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Wholly owned” includes leased property which is not State-owned, if the:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Lease agreement is for a minimum of 30 years following the project completion or extends the right of purchase to the lessee; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Lessor consents to the recording of a notice of the State's right of recovery, under Health-General Article, §24-606, Annotated Code of Maryland, in the land records of the county or Baltimore City in which the facility is located.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>