§ 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:

      (i) resolution; or

      (ii) letter, delivered to the Department by the political subdivision's authorized designee, expressing support for the plan or project.

   (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:

      (i) resolution; or

      (ii) letter, delivered to the Department by the political subdivision's authorized designee, expressing support for the plan or project.

(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.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 83B, § 4-806; 2005, ch. 26, § 2; 2010, ch. 487; 2012, ch. 719; 2013, ch. 13.