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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="16-308" title_number="16" title_name="Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Management Companies, and Home Inspectors" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Licensing of Real Estate Appraisers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless a license is renewed for a 3-year term as provided in this section, the license expires on a staggered basis as determined by the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least 1 month before the license expires, the Commission 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 Commission as undeliverable, the Commission 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 Commission received the notice that the electronic transmission was undeliverable.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before a license expires, the licensee periodically may renew it for an additional 3–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 Commission a renewal fee set by the Commission; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>submits to the Commission:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a renewal application on the form that the Commission provides; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>adequate evidence of compliance with the continuing education requirements set under this subtitle for license renewal.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
