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and offset the costs of such maintenance and repairs against other amounts owed by the
Authority or the State to Baltimore City, whether under the operating agreement with
Baltimore City or otherwise; [and]

(6) With respect to site acquisition and construction of an Ocean City
Convention Center facility, has secured, as approved by the Board of Public Works:

(i) A lease or other written agreement with Ocean City pursuant to
which:

1.       Ocean City agrees to issue bonds not later than the date of
the Authority's bond issuance as authorized under § 13-712(a)(l) of this subtitle and to
contribute $14,700,000 of the proceeds from the sale of the bonds for the capital costs of
the expansion of the Ocean City Convention Center;

2.       The Authority agrees to issue bonds as authorized under §
13-712(a)(l) of this subtitle and to contribute $14,700,000 of the proceeds from the sale
of the bonds for the capital costs of the expansion of the Ocean City Convention Center;

3.       Ocean City and the Authority agree that if the actual capital
costs of the expansion of the Ocean City Convention Center are less than $29,400,000, the
savings will be allocated:

A.      One-half to the Authority; and

B.      One-half to Ocean City;

4.       Ocean City agrees to provide the Ocean City Convention
Center site, as defined in § 13-701(1) of this subtitle, for the expansion and renovation of
the Ocean City Convention Center; and

5.       Ocean City and the Authority will each own a 50% leasehold
interest as tenants in common in the improvements comprising the existing Ocean City
Convention Center and the Ocean City Convention Center expansion for the duration of
any bonds issued as authorized under § 13-712(a)(l) of this subtitle, with neither Ocean
City nor the Authority entitled to sell, assign, mortgage, pledge, or encumber the Ocean
City Convention Center facility (or any leasehold interest therein) without the prior
consent of the other, except for liens in favor of Ocean City's and the Authority's
respective bondholders;

(ii) A deed, lease, or written agreement with Ocean City permitting
the Authority to design, construct, and equip, or contract for the design, construction, and
equipping of the Ocean City Convention Center facility expansion, and to pledge the
Ocean City Convention Center facility and the Ocean City Convention Center site or the
leasehold interest therein, as security for the Authority's bonds; and

(iii) A written agreement with Ocean City:

1. Whereby Ocean City agrees to market, promote, and operate
the Ocean City Convention Center facility in a manner which maximizes the Ocean City
Convention Center's economic return (which shall not be construed to require gambling

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