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arrangement as defined in Title 30-A, section
4357-A or any property owned by a nonprofit
organization licensed or funded by the
Department of Behavioral and Development
Services to provide services to or for the
benefit of persons with mental illness or
mental retardation;

 
(ii) Property used for student housing;

 
(iii) Property used for parsonages;

 
(iv) Property that was owned and occupied
or used to provide residential rental
housing that qualified for exemption under
paragraph A or B prior to September 1,
1993; or

 
(v) Property exempt from taxation under
other provisions of law; and

 
(7) In addition to the requirements of subparagraphs
(1) to (4), an exemption is not allowed under
paragraph A or B for real or personal property owned
and occupied or used to provide residential rental
housing that is transferred or placed in service on
or after September 1, 1993, unless the property is
owned by a nonprofit housing corporation and the
operation of the residential rental housing is not an
unrelated trade or business to the nonprofit housing
corporation.

 
For the purposes of this subparagraph, the following
terms have the following meanings.

 
(a) "Nonprofit housing corporation" means a
nonprofit corporation organized in the State
that is exempt from tax under Section 501(c)(3)
of the Code and has among its corporate purposes
the provision of services to people of low
income or the construction, rehabilitation,
ownership or operation of housing.

 
(b) "Residential rental housing" means one or
more buildings, together with any facilities
functionally related and subordinate to the
building or buildings, containing one or more
similarly constructed residential units offered
for rental to the general public for use on
other than a transient basis, each of which
contains separate and complete facilities for
living, sleeping, eating, cooking and
sanitation.


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