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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="19-404.1" title_number="19" title_name="Security Guard Agencies and Security Guard Certification" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Certification of Security Guards">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless a certification is renewed for a 3–year term as provided in this section, the certification expires on the last day of the certification holder’s birth month.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least 90 days, 60 days, and 30 days before a certification expires, the Secretary shall send a renewal notice to a certification holder that states:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the date on which the certification expires; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>that the renewal application for certification must be received and accepted by the Secretary before the date the certification expires.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Secretary shall send a renewal notice under paragraph (1) of this subsection by electronic means to the last known e–mail address of the certification holder.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before a certification expires, the applicant shall submit to the Secretary in the manner and format designated by the Secretary:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a renewal application; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the amount of the renewal fee in a method approved by the Secretary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An individual periodically may renew the certification for an additional 3–year term, if the individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>otherwise is entitled to be certified;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pays to the Secretary in a method approved by the Secretary:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a renewal fee of $10; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>payment for the cost of a fingerprint card record check by the Federal Bureau of Investigation;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>satisfactorily completes 8 hours of continuing security training that is approved by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission under § 19–412 of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>submits to the Secretary supporting documentation that demonstrates completion of the training; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>submits to the Secretary a renewal application in the manner and format designated by the Secretary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Secretary may not certify any applicant under this subtitle if the applicant has outstanding obligations under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Secretary shall renew the certification of each individual who meets the requirements of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Within 5 days after the Secretary refuses to renew the certification of an individual as a security guard, the Secretary shall send written notice of the refusal to the individual who submitted the renewal application.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>At least 90 days before a certification expires, the licensed security guard agency or security guard employer shall submit a declaration to the Secretary under the penalties of perjury stating whether it knows that a certified security guard who provides security guard services on the security guard agency’s behalf or for the security guard employer no longer satisfies all of the criteria for certification under § 19–402 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
