Ch. 274                                            LAWS OF MARYLAND

construction, health, safety, fire, occupancy, and other codes
and standards, to ensure that the building can be maintained in
that condition, and to improve the general utility and
attractiveness of the building OR TO BRING IT INTO CONFORMANCE
WITH THE APPROPRIATE MINIMUM LIVABILITY CODE;

(ii) In the case of certain special loan
programs, to provide shared, accessory, or sheltered housing, to
provide for lead paint abatement, or to provide indoor plumbing[,
or to bring the building into conformance with a minimum
livability code]; or

(iii) In the case of special loan pilot
programs, to provide for radon gas and asbestos abatement.

(s) "Special loan programs" means the Accessory, Shared and
Sheltered Housing Program, the Lead Paint Abatement Program, the
Indoor Plumbing Program, the Radon Gas and Asbestos Abatement
Pilot Program, and the Migratory Worker Housing Facilities
Program[, and the Livability Code Rehabilitation Program].

[2-309.

(a)  The Livability Code Rehabilitation Program is created
within the Maryland Housing Rehabilitation Program.

(b)  The Department shall operate the Program and make loans
from the fund for a rehabilitation project which brings a
building into conformance with a minimum livability code.

(c)  To qualify for a livability code rehabilitation loan,
an owner of a building:

(1)  Must reside in the building and be a family of
limited income, or must rent at least two-thirds of the dwelling
units in the building to families of limited income;

(2)  Must submit to the Department a proposal to bring
the building into conformance with the minimum livability code;
and

(3) Must demonstrate that the building is in a
political subdivision that;

(i) Before the adoption by the Department of
the State Minimum Livability Code, has an existing housing code;
or

(ii) After the adoption of the State Minimum
Livability Code, has adopted;

1. The State Minimum Livability Code; or

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