2013 Maryland Code
HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
§ 4-1205 - Duties of Department

§4-1205.

(a) The Department shall:

(1) administer the Program;

(2) adopt policies and procedures that encourage partnership rental housing throughout the State; and

(3) adopt regulations to carry out the Program, including regulations that specify criteria for local contributions to the cost of partnership projects undertaken by a political subdivision or housing authority.

(b) The Department may establish:

(1) maximum limits for financing that it will provide to:

(i) individual partnership rental housing units;

(ii) any one partnership project; or

(iii) any political subdivision or housing authority;

(2) a process for approving financing for partnership projects that encourages a broad geographic distribution of money; and

(3) the time that a household may occupy the partnership rental housing after the annual income of the household exceeds the continuing occupancy income limits for households of lower income.