(a)   Proceeds received from any bonds issued and sold under this subtitle
may be:
    (1)   Expended with respect to any designated blighted area for redevelopment
purposes;
    (2)   Expended with respect to any designated blighted area for other
purposes determined by the local governing body to be incidental,
necessary, or appropriate to the redevelopment of the designated
blighted area, as may be determined by the local governing body,
including construction of new structures or the enlargement of existing
structures; or
    (3)   Expended with respect to the necessary expenses of preparing, printing,
selling, and issuing the bonds, the funding of reserves and the funding
of interest on the bonds in such amounts, or for such period, as the
local governing body deems reasonable.
  (b)   In the ordinance or resolution described in § 14-807 of this
subtitle, the local governing body may provide that the proceeds of
bonds may be expended for any combination of the purposes described in
subsection (a) of this section and may further define and determine the
purposes for which bond proceeds may be expended.
  (c)   A local governing body may also expend for any of the purposes
described in subsection (a) of this section funds provided to the local
governing body by the federal government or the State of Maryland for
such purposes, or funds otherwise made available to or by the local
governing body and legally available for such purposes, provided,
however, that the expenditure by the local governing body of any such
funds shall first be authorized in accordance with applicable
procedures of the local governing body regarding the expenditure of
public funds.
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