Section 6-206 - Action on application.
§ 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.]