Maryland Code, Economic Development § 12-101

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) “Authority” means an industrial development authority established in accordance with § 12-105 of this subtitle.

(d) “Chief executive” means the president, chair, mayor, county executive, or any other chief executive officer of a public body.

(e) “Facility” means any land or an interest in land, structure, working capital, equipment, or other property, or any combination of them, the acquisition or improvement of which the legislative body of a county or municipal corporation, the board of directors of an authority, or the Maryland Industrial Development Financing Authority, in its sole discretion, determines by resolution will accomplish one or more of the legislative purposes listed in § 12-103(b) of this subtitle.

(f) “Facility applicant” means a person, public or private corporation, or other entity, whether for-profit or nonprofit, that, by letter of intent or similar agreement with a public body, requests the public body to participate in financing a facility under this subtitle for use by a facility user.

(h) “Finance” includes refinance.

(j) “Improve” means to add, alter, construct, equip, expand, extend, improve, install, reconstruct, rehabilitate, remodel, or repair.

(k) “Improvement” means addition, alteration, construction, equipping, expansion, extension, improvement, installation, reconstruction, rehabilitation, remodeling, or repair.

(l) “Public body” means: