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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="14-314" title_number="14" title_name="Professional Engineers" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Licensing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless a license is renewed for a 2–year term as provided in this section, the license expires on the first June 30 that comes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>after the effective date of the license; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in an even–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 license 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 label="3">
      <text>The failure of a licensee to receive the notice for which this subsection provides does not prevent the license from expiring as specified under subsection (a) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before a license expires, the licensee periodically 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 license fee set by the Board; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>submits to the Board a renewal application on the form that the Board provides.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <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="2">
      <text>The Board shall include on each renewal certificate that the Board issues:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the date on which the current license expires; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the signatures of the chairman and secretary of the Board, under seal of the Board.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Secretary may determine that licenses issued under this subtitle shall expire on a staggered basis.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Board shall adopt regulations to require a demonstration of continuing professional competency for a licensee as a condition of renewal of a license under this section in accordance with the following:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>continuing professional competency requirements do not apply to the first renewal of a license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>if a license expires on or before September 30, 2012, a licensee is not required to fulfill the continuing professional competency requirements;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>if a license expires between October 1, 2012, and September 30, 2013, a licensee is required to fulfill 50% of the continuing professional competency requirements as provided in the regulations adopted by the Board under this subsection; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>if a license expires on or after October 1, 2013, a licensee is required to fulfill the full continuing professional competency requirements as provided in the regulations adopted by the Board under this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
