WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                       Ch. 6

systems development;

(3)  Provide input into the development of statewide
criteria and standards for certificate of need and health
planning; AND

(4)  Provide input into evidentiary hearings on the
evaluation of certificate of need applications from its area.
Where no local health planning agency is designated, the
Commission shall seek the advice of the local county government
of the affected area.

(d) The Commission shall require that in developing local
health plans, each local health planning agency:

(1)  Use the population estimates that the Department
prepares under § 4-218 of this article;

(2)  Use the figures and special age group projections
that the Department of State Planning prepares annually for the
Commission;

(3)  Meet applicable planning specifications; AND

(4)  Work with other local health planning agencies to
ensure consistency among local health plans.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Conjunctions omitted in § 19-lll(c) and (d) of
the Health - General Article.

Occurred: Ch. 108, Acts of 1982.

19-115.

(j) (1) A certificate of need is required before any of the
following capital expenditures are made by or on behalf of a
health care facility:

(i) Any expenditure that, under generally
accepted accounting principles, is not properly chargeable as an
operating or maintenance expense, if:

1.  The expenditure is made as part of an
acquisition, improvement, or expansion, and, after adjustment for
inflation as provided in the regulations of the Commission, the
total expenditure, including the cost of each study, survey,
design, plan, working drawing, specification, and other essential
activity, is more than $600,000;

2.  The expenditure is made as part of a
replacement of any plant and equipment of the health care

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