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Section 4-605 – Duties of Department

    The Department shall:         (1)    administer the Program;         (2)    adopt policies that encourage the establishment of group homes for persons of lower income throughout the State;         (3)    attach to a purchase, sale, or lease of a group home or land for a group home the terms needed to carry out the Program;         (4)    establish guidelines for monitoring the group homes […]

Section 4-601 – Definitions

    (a)    In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.     (b)    (1)    “Group home” means a housing facility that offers:             (i)    supportive services or supervisory personnel to individuals with special housing needs who are not related to the group home sponsor; and             (ii)    common, shared, or independent living, dining, kitchen, sanitary, and sleeping facilities.         (2)    “Group home” need not include […]