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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="13-104" title_number="13" title_name="Trading Stamp Companies" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The bond required by this subtitle shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>payable to the State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>conditioned that the trading stamp company shall redeem its trading stamps whenever rightful holders present them for redemption; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>executed by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the trading stamp company; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a corporate surety qualified to do business in the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The amount of the bond shall be based on the gross income of the principal obligor from trading stamp business in the State during its last fiscal year.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The amount of the bond is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$25,000, if the principal obligor has not previously done business in the State or if the gross income was not more than $250,000;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$50,000, if the gross income was more than $250,000 but not more than $500,000;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>$75,000, if the gross income was more than $500,000 but not more than $750,000; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>$100,000, if the gross income was more than $750,000.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
