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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="13-313" title_number="13" title_name="Private Detectives" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Private Detective Agency Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of § 13-315 of this subtitle, the Secretary may deny a license to any applicant, reprimand any licensee, fine any licensee or agency, or suspend or revoke a license if the applicant or licensee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a license for the applicant or licensee or for another;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>fraudulently or deceptively uses a license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>aids an individual to obtain or to attempt to obtain fraudulently or deceptively certification under this title as a private detective;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>while not licensed, solicits to engage in or willfully engages in a business providing private detective services in the State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>while not licensed, willfully advertises:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>as a private detective agency; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the provision of private detective services;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>willfully makes a false statement or misrepresentation that an individual is or was in the employ of the applicant or licensee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>willfully makes a false statement or misrepresentation in any renewal application, in any annual statement, or in any other report or document that the Secretary requires to be submitted;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>fails to notify the Secretary about any change among the firm members or in the address of the principal office or any branch office of a licensee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>fails to maintain the liability insurance required under § 13-604 of this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>violates any other provision of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>For purposes of this section, an act or omission of any principal, agent, or employee of an applicant or licensee may be construed to be the act or omission of the applicant or licensee, as well as of the principal, agent, or employee.</text>
  </level>
</section>
