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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="14-409" title_number="14" title_name="Professional Engineers" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Permits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of § 14–410 of this subtitle, the Board, on the affirmative vote of a majority of its members then serving, may deny a permit to any applicant, reprimand a permit holder, or suspend or revoke a permit if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the applicant or permit holder fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a permit; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the permit holder fraudulently or deceptively uses a permit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In addition to a sanction imposed under subsection (a) of this section, the Board may impose a penalty not exceeding $5,000 for each:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>violation for which a denial, reprimand, suspension, or revocation was imposed under subsection (a) of this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>failure to meet or continue to meet the qualifications or requirements set forth in this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To determine the amount of the penalty imposed under this   subsection, the Board shall consider:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the seriousness of the violation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the harm caused by the violation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the good faith of the permit holder; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>any history of previous violations by the permit holder.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Board shall pay any penalty collected under subsection (b) of this section into the General Fund of the State.</text>
  </level>
</section>
