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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="14-309" title_number="14" title_name="Hemp" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Hemp Production">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not knowingly:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Fail to comply with the Department’s plan for monitoring and regulating the production of hemp established under § 14–305 of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Misrepresent or fail to provide the legal description of land on which hemp is produced;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Produce hemp without a valid license; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Produce plants, or any part of a plant, that exceeds a delta–9–tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of 0.3% on a dry weight basis.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Department shall report a person that knowingly violates this subtitle to the Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the Department determines that a person negligently violated this subtitle, the Department shall require the person to correct the violation, including requiring that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The violation be corrected by a reasonable date; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The person report to the Department, at a frequency determined by the Department and for a period of not less than 2 calendar years, to verify compliance with this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a person is found by the Department to have negligently violated this subtitle three times in a 4–year period, the person may not produce hemp in the State for a period of 5 years beginning on the date of the third violation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
