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need is required under subsection (b)(2) of this section.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Stylistic errors in § 19-116(b) and (c) of the
Health - General Article.

Occurred: Ch. 420, Acts of 1987.

19-117.

A certificate of need is required before an ambulatory care
facility:

(1) Offers any health service:

(i) Through a health care facility;

(ii) In space leased from a health care

facility; or

care facility;

(iii) In space on land leased from a health

(2)  To provide those services, makes an expenditure,
if a certificate of need would be required under Section
[19-115(k)] § 19-115(J) of this subtitle for the expenditure by
or on behalf of a health care facility;

(3)  Acquires medical equipment if a certificate of
need would be required under Section [19-115(l)] § 19-115(K) of
this subtitle for the acquisition by a health care facility; or

(4)  Does anything else for which the Federal Act
requires a certificate of need and that the Commission has not
exempted from that requirement.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Obsolete cross-reference in § 19-117(2) and
(3) of the Health - General Article.

Occurred: Subsections (k) and (1) of § 19-115 were
redesignated to be subsections (j) and (k) in Ch. 693,
Acts of 1986.

19-118.

(a) If the Commission receives an application for a
certificate of need for a change in the bed capacity of a health
care facility, as required under § 19-115 of this subtitle, or
for a health care project that would create a new health care
service or abolish an existing health care service, the

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