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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="16-505" title_number="16" title_name="Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Management Companies, and Home Inspectors" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Certification of Real Estate Appraisers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An applicant for a certificate shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>submit to the Commission an application on the form that the Commission provides;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pay to the Commission an application fee set by the Commission;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>apply to the Central Repository for a national and State criminal history records check on a form approved by the Director of the Central Repository;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>submit to the Central Repository a complete set of legible fingerprints taken at any designated State or local law enforcement office in the State or other agency or location approved by the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>pay the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>pay the fee authorized under § 10–221(b)(7) of the Criminal Procedure Article for access to the State criminal history records.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Central Repository shall provide to the Commission:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the national and State criminal history records of each applicant requiring a criminal history records check under subsection (a) of this section and a printed statement listing any convictions and pleas of guilty or nolo contendere to any criminal charge; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an acknowledged receipt of the application for a criminal history records check by an applicant requiring a criminal history records check.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Information obtained by the Commission from the Central Repository under this section shall be confidential and may be disseminated only to the individual who is the subject of the criminal history records check.</text>
  </level>
</section>
