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Ch. 152
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2002 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 43C - Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority
Section 3(h)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article 43C - Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority
3.
As used in this article, the following words and terms shall have the following
meanings unless the context indicates another or different meaning or intent:
(h) (1) "Hospital" means a hospital, a related institution or a combination of
a hospital and a related institution, located within this State and either meeting the
requirements of and having a license or licenses as required by § 19-318 of the Health
- General Article or, in the case of a new institution, having a prelicensing
certification or recertification from the State Health Planning and Development
Agency and being or to be, in fact, a health care facility available to the general public
maintained and operated as a nonprofit institution by some person, association,
municipal or other corporation, or other agency, or a nonprofit corporation organized
for the purpose of constructing or acquiring such a hospital, related institution or
combination of a hospital and a related institution.
(2) "Hospital" includes:
(i) Nonprofit comprehensive health centers providing out-patient
primary health services available to the general public, but does not include any
facility as described in this item which is owned and operated by the State, except
that with the approval of the Board of Public Works and the Joint Audit Committee of
the General Assembly the term includes medical or health care facilities of the
University System of Maryland;
(ii) Nonprofit life care or continuing care communities providing
self-contained residence facilities for the retired or elderly, but does not include any
facility as described in this item which is owned and operated by the State unless
approved by the Board of Public Works and the Joint Audit Committee of the General
Assembly;
(iii) Any combination of any of the facilities and centers enumerated
in items (i) and (ii) of this paragraph; [and]
(iv) Any entity affiliated or associated with a hospital, as defined in
paragraph (1) of this subsection or item (i), (ii), or (iii) of this paragraph, provided that
the Authority determines by resolution that the financing of a project for that entity
serves the public purposes of the hospital; AND
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