Md. Code, Housing and Community Development § 4-605
This is the official text of Md. Code, Housing and Community Development § 4-605, part of Maryland’s Code, Housing and Community Development — governs housing programs and community development.
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§4–605.
Official statutory text
The Department shall:
(1) administer the Program;
(2) adopt policies that encourage the establishment of group homes for persons of lower income throughout the State;
(3) attach to a purchase, sale, or lease of a group home or land for a group home the terms needed to carry out the Program;
(4) establish guidelines for monitoring the group homes to ensure that, aside from dwelling room for supervisory individuals and their families, group homes receiving financing under the Program are occupied in substantial part by persons of lower income; and
(5) establish guidelines to determine the ability of a group home sponsor to manage a group home, provide necessary services, and repay the Program loan.
(1) administer the Program;
(2) adopt policies that encourage the establishment of group homes for persons of lower income throughout the State;
(3) attach to a purchase, sale, or lease of a group home or land for a group home the terms needed to carry out the Program;
(4) establish guidelines for monitoring the group homes to ensure that, aside from dwelling room for supervisory individuals and their families, group homes receiving financing under the Program are occupied in substantial part by persons of lower income; and
(5) establish guidelines to determine the ability of a group home sponsor to manage a group home, provide necessary services, and repay the Program loan.
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