WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 128

CHAPTER 128
(Senate Bill 90)

AN ACT concerning

Department of Housing and Community Development - Community Development
Administration - Special Housing Facilities

FOR the purpose of establishing a definition of special housing facility; specifying the
authority of the Community Development Administration to administer financial
assistance programs for special housing facilities; providing that community
development projects are subject to the local approval requirement for community
development projects; providing that projects financed by the Administration are
subject to applicable zoning and building codes; making a stylistic change; and
generally relating to the Community Development Administration and the financing
of special housing facilities.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 83B - Department of Housing and Community Development

Section 2-203(g) and (bb), 2-204(15), and 2-205(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1991 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 83B - Department of Housing and Community Development

2-203.

(g) "Development cost" means the costs incurred in carrying out all works and
undertakings which the Department deems reasonable and necessary for the construction
of a community development project, a public purpose project, A SPECIAL HOUSING
FACILITY, a home improvement project, an infrastructure project, an energy conservation
project or a solar energy project. These shall include but are not necessarily limited to the
costs of all necessary studies, surveys, plans and specifications, architectural; engineering
or other special services, acquisition of land and any buildings thereon, site preparation
and development, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement and the
acquisition of such machinery and equipment and furnishings as may be deemed
necessary in connection therewith; the necessary expenses incurred in connection with
initial occupancy or operation of the project; an allocable portion of the administrative
and operating expenses of the Department; the cost of financing the project, including
interest on bonds and notes issued to finance the project from the date thereof to the date
when the Department shall determine that the project be deemed substantially occupied
or substantially in operation; and the cost of such other items, including any indemnity
and surety bonds and premiums on insurance, fees, relocation costs, and charges and
expenses of trustees, depositories and paying agents for bonds and notes issued, all as the
Department shall deem necessary.

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