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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="17-507" title_number="17" title_name="Real Estate Brokers" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Each real estate broker shall maintain all records of trust money in a secured area within the office of the broker.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each licensee shall keep copies of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>listings; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any other document executed or obtained by the licensee in connection with a transaction involving the provision of real estate brokerage services, including any electronic signature contained on a document.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A licensee shall keep the records required by this section for 5 years, starting on the date of the closing of a real estate transaction, or, if the transaction is not closed, 5 years after the date of the listing.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A licensee providing property management services shall keep the records required by this section for 5 years after the termination of the management agreement.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>For any record required to be kept under subsections (a) and (b) of this section, a licensee may keep and store an electronic record of the information if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the stored record cannot be erased or edited;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the stored record is made or preserved as part of, and in the regular course of, the licensee’s business;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the original record from which the stored record was copied was made or prepared by the licensee or the licensee’s employees at or near the time of the activity described in the record;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the custodian of the record is able to identify the stored record, the mode of its preparation, and the mode of storage; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the electronic storage system contains a reliable indexing system that provides:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>convenient access to the document or record;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>appropriate quality control of the storage process; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>chronological arrangement of stored documents or records.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On reasonable notice from the Commission, a licensee shall allow a representative of the Commission to enter the licensee’s place of business during business hours to inspect a record required to be kept under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The licensee shall provide, at the licensee’s expense, a paper copy of any document or record requested by the Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A licensee shall display to the Commission on demand all records, books, and accounts of any money held in trust.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
