Section 4-927 - Indoor Plumbing Program. - Maryland Statutes

§ 4-927. Indoor Plumbing Program.
 

(a)  Established.- There is an Indoor Plumbing Program. 

(b)  Duties of Department.- The Department shall: 

(1) operate the Indoor Plumbing Program; and 

(2) make loans for rehabilitation projects that provide for adequate indoor plumbing from the Special Loan Programs Fund under this subtitle. 

(c)  Terms of loan.-  

(1) The terms for indoor plumbing loans shall meet the requirements of §§ 4-917 through 4-919 of this subtitle. 

(2) The Department may forgive all or part of a deferred payment loan, if: 

(i) the loan is made to a family of limited income that owns and occupies the dwelling and whose income is within a lower income range established under § 4-916(b) of this subtitle; and 

(ii) the Secretary determines that the family of limited income does not have enough income to repay the principal amount of the loan. 

(d)  Qualifications for loan.- To qualify for an indoor plumbing loan, an applicant shall: 

(1) own a building that is otherwise structurally sound, or for which the applicant provides a commitment from a lender to finance improvements needed to make the building structurally sound, and that: 

(i) has no or incomplete indoor plumbing or a failing septic system; and 

(ii) needs indoor plumbing pipes, equipment, wells, septic tanks or other on-site sewer system, or a connection to a community water or sewer system; 

(2) live in the building and be a family of limited income, or rent at least two-thirds of the dwellings in the building to families of limited income; and 

(3) submit to the Department a proposal for installing an adequate indoor plumbing system for water supply and sewage disposal, including any needed septic system, well, or connection to a community sewer or water system that meets the requirements of the Department of the Environment and every other governmental unit that has jurisdiction over the system. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 83B, § 2-308(a)-(d); 2005, ch. 26, § 2.]