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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="5-405" title_number="5" title_name="Cosmetologists" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Registration of Apprentices">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) of this section, the initial term of registration as an apprentice is 2 years.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Unless registration as an apprentice is renewed for one additional 2–year term as provided in this section, the registration expires on the date set by the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least 1 month before the registration of an individual expires, the Board shall mail or electronically transmit to the individual:</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 registration 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 individual, at the last known address of the individual, 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="d">
    <text>Before the registration of an individual expires, the individual may renew it for an additional term, if the individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>otherwise is entitled to be registered;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pays to the Board a renewal fee established by the Board in accordance with § 5–205 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="e">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) of this section, an individual registered as an apprentice may renew the registration only one time for a 2–year term.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Board shall renew the registration of and issue a renewal certificate to each individual who meets the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>A registration as an apprentice for any limited practice of cosmetology expires 12 months after the date of its issuance unless the limited practice apprentice registration is renewed for one 1–year term.</text>
  </level>
</section>
