Section 6-206 - Action on application. - Maryland Statutes

§ 6-206. Action on application.
 

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

(1) review each application and may request more information from the sponsor; 

(2) accept public input on each application; 

(3) submit each application to appropriate State units and appropriate members of the Smart Growth Subcabinet; 

(4) consider any recommendation a State unit or member of the Smart Growth Subcabinet makes; 

(5) consider geographic balance when reviewing applications; and 

(6) give priority in awarding financial assistance to applicants that are likely to repay the financial assistance to a community development financial institution or to the Community Legacy Financial Assistance Fund. 

(b)  Approval of political subdivision.-  

(1) The Department may not approve an application unless the political subdivision in which the proposed project is located approves the application by resolution. 

(2) If an application affects a sustainable community entirely within a municipal corporation, the approval must come from the municipal corporation rather than the surrounding county. 

(3) If an application affects a sustainable community within more than one political subdivision, each political subdivision must approve it by resolution. 

(c)  The Secretary shall award financial assistance to a sponsor or a sponsor's designee: 

(1) in the amount and of the type that the Secretary determines; and 

(2) under the terms of a community legacy agreement. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 83B, § 4-806; 2005, ch. 26, § 2; 2010, ch. 487.]