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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="14-407" title_number="14" title_name="Professional Engineers" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Permits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless a permit is renewed for a 2–year term as provided in this section, the permit expires on the first June 30 that comes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>after the effective date of the permit; 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 permit expires, the Board shall mail or electronically transmit to the permit holder:</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 permit expires; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the amount of the permit 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 permit holder, at the last known address of the permit holder, 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 permit expires, the permit holder may renew the permit periodically for an additional 2–year term if the holder:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>otherwise is entitled to a permit;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pays to the Board a permit 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">
    <text>The renewal application form shall require the same information required on the original application form under § 14–404(b) of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Board shall renew the permit of each permit holder that meets the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Secretary may determine that permits issued under this subtitle shall expire on a staggered basis.</text>
  </level>
</section>
