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Terms Used In Maryland Code, LOCAL GOVERNMENT 22-105

  • including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) Except as limited by the local law establishing the Resilience Authority or its articles of incorporation, a Resilience Authority has all the powers under this title.

(b) A Resilience Authority has and may exercise all powers necessary or convenient to undertake, finance, manage, acquire, own, convey, or support resilience infrastructure projects, including the power to:

(1) acquire by purchase, lease, or other legal means, but not by eminent domain, property for resilience infrastructure;

(2) establish, construct, alter, improve, equip, repair, maintain, operate, and regulate resilience infrastructure owned by the incorporating local government or the Resilience Authority;

(3) receive money from its incorporating local government, the State, other governmental units, or private organizations;

(4) charge and collect fees for its services;

(5) subject to the approval of the local governing body, charge and collect fees to back its bond issuances;

(6) have employees and consultants as it considers necessary;

(7) use the services of other governmental units; and

(8) act as necessary or convenient to carry out the powers granted to it by law.