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<section article="gab" article_name="Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis" number="4-107" title_number="4" title_name="Local Licensing" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Applications for Local Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A local licensing board may apply to the Central Repository for a State and national criminal history records check for each applicant for a license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>As part of the application for a criminal history records check, a local licensing board shall submit to the Central Repository:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>two complete sets of the applicant’s legible fingerprints taken on forms approved by the director of the Central Repository and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the fee authorized under § 10–221(b)(7) of the Criminal Procedure Article for access to State criminal history records; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In accordance with Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the Criminal Procedure Article, the Central Repository shall forward to the applicant for a license and the local licensing board the applicant’s criminal history record information.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Information obtained by the local licensing board from the Central Repository under this section shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>confidential and may not be redisseminated; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>used only for the licensing purpose authorized by this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The subject of a criminal history records check under this section may contest the contents of the printed statement issued by the Central Repository as provided in § 10–223 of the Criminal Procedure Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>When criminal history record information of an applicant or license holder is reported to the Central Repository after the initial criminal history records check is completed, the Central Repository shall provide the local licensing board with a revised printed statement of the criminal record of the applicant or license holder.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the local licensing board informs the Central Repository that an individual is no longer an applicant or a license holder, the Central Repository shall stop providing the local licensing board with revised printed statements of the criminal record of the individual.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
