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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 330

(2)  The bonds issued to evidence this loan or installments
thereof may be sold as a single issue, or may be consolidated and
sold as part of a single issue of bonds under § 2B of Article 31
of the Code.

(3)  The actual cash proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall
be paid to the Treasurer and shall be first applied to the
payment of the expenses of issuing and delivering the bonds
unless funds for this purpose are otherwise provided and
thereafter shall be credited on the books of the State
Comptroller and expended, upon approval by the Board of Public
Works, for the following public purposes, including any
applicable architects' and engineers' fees: for State grants to
qualified applicants for the construction, acquisition,
renovation, and equipment equipping of community mental health
center components, addiction facilities, mental retardation
facilities, and developmental disabilities facilities , including
the reports, plans, specifications, site improvements, surveys
and programs in connection therewith.

(4) (a) For the purposes of this Act, the following terms
have the meanings indicated.

(b)  "Department" means the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene.

(c)  "Facility" means:

(i) Public community mental health center
component, addiction facility, mental retardation facility, or
developmental disabilities facility that is wholly owned by and
operated under the authority of a county or a municipality, or
both; or

(ii) Nonprofit community mental health center
component, addiction facility, mental retardation facility, or
developmental disabilities facility that is wholly owned by and
operated under the authority of a nonprofit organization.

(d)  "Nonprofit organization" means:

(i) A bona fide religious organization, no part
of the earnings of which inures to the benefit of any 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; or

(ii) An organization:

1. That is chartered as a nonprofit
corporation and classified by the Internal Revenue Service as
nonprofit; and