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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="12-308" title_number="12" title_name="Plumbers" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Licensing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to § 12–308.1 of this subtitle, unless a license is renewed for a 2–year term as provided in this section, the license expires on the first May 1 that comes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>after the effective date of the license; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in an odd–numbered year.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least 1 month before a license expires, the Board shall mail or electronically transmit to the licensee:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a renewal application form; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a notice that states:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the date on which the current license expires; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the amount of the renewal fee.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If an electronic transmission under paragraph (1) of this subsection is returned to the Board as undeliverable, the Board shall mail to the licensee, at the last known address of the licensee, the materials required under paragraph (1) of this subsection within 10 business days of the date the Board received the notice that the electronic transmission was undeliverable.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before a license expires, the licensee may renew it for an additional 2–year term, if the licensee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>otherwise is entitled to be licensed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pays to the Board a renewal fee set by the Board; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>submits to the Board:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>if contracting in the name of the licensee or another person to provide plumbing services, proof of the liability insurance required under § 12–501 of this title; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a renewal application on the form that the Board provides.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Board shall renew the license of and issue a renewal certificate to each licensee who meets the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Secretary may determine that licenses and certificates issued under this subtitle shall expire on a staggered basis.</text>
  </level>
</section>
