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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="4-506" title_number="4" title_name="Barbers" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Barbershops and Barber Schools">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless a barbershop permit is renewed for a 2-year term as provided in this section, the permit expires on the first May 31 that comes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>after the effective date of the permit; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in an odd-numbered year.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least 1 month before a barbershop permit expires, the Board shall mail or electronically transmit to the permit holder:</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 permit 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 Board as undeliverable, the Board shall mail to the permit holder, at the last known address of the permit holder, the materials required under paragraph (1) of this subsection within 10 business days of the date the Board received the notice that the electronic transmission was undeliverable.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before a barbershop permit expires, the barbershop permit holder periodically may renew it for an additional 2-year term, if the holder:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>otherwise is entitled to hold the permit;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pays to the Board a renewal fee established by the Board in accordance with § 4-206 of this title; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>submits to the Board a renewal application on the form that the Board provides.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Board shall renew the barbershop permit of and issue a renewal certificate to each barbershop permit holder who meets the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Secretary may determine that barbershop permits issued under this subtitle shall expire on a staggered basis.</text>
  </level>
</section>
