Ch. 299

LAWS OF MARYLAND

public purposes, including any applicable architects' and
engineers' fees: for State grants to qualified applicants for
the planning, design, construction, conversion, acquisition,
renovation, and equipping of community juvenile residential
facilities, including reports, plans, specifications, site
improvements, surveys, and programs in connection therewith.

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

(a)  "Agency" means the Juvenile Services Agency.

(b)  "Facility" means a juvenile residential program
that is wholly owned by and operated under the authority of:

(i) A county or municipal corporation, or both;

(ii) A for-profit organization;

(iii) A nonprofit organization.

(c)  "Juvenile residential program" means any
residential program that:

(i) Meets the definition in § 6-120(a) and §

6-121 of the Health - General Article Article 41C, §§ 2-120(a)

and 2-121 of the Code; and

(ii) Is licensed by the Agency pursuant to
regulations (COMAR 10.25.03) promulgated by the Agency to

implement the policies of Title 6, Subtitle 1 of the Health---

General Article Article 41C, §§ 2-120 through 2-131 of the Code.

(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

2.  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.

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