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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="19-303" title_number="19" title_name="Miscellaneous State Business Regulation" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Returnable Containers and Returnable Textiles">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may register:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a class of returnable containers if:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the person owns or deals in goods handled or delivered in a returnable container; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the returnable container has an identifying name, mark, or device securely attached, impressed, or imprinted; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a class of returnable textiles, if the person:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>is in the business of regularly supplying clean laundered returnable textiles; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>periodically exchanges the clean returnable textiles for soiled returnable textiles.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person who has registered a returnable container or returnable textile under State law is not required to reregister the returnable container or returnable textile.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To register a returnable container or returnable textile a person shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>prepare a clear statement of the character of the returnable container or returnable textile; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>prepare a comprehensive description of the identifying name, mark, or device attached, impressed, imprinted, woven, or produced;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>sign and acknowledge the comprehensive description before an officer qualified to take an acknowledgment to deeds in the State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>publish the signed and acknowledged comprehensive description:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>in two successive issues, in different weeks, of a newspaper published in the county in which the principal office, place of business, or agency of the person is located; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>twice a week for 2 successive weeks in a daily newspaper published in Baltimore City if the principal office, place of business, or agency of the person is located in Baltimore City; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>file with the Secretary of State the comprehensive description and a certificate of publication, certified by the owner or manager of the newspaper in which the comprehensive description was published.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person may transfer a registration by filing a copy of the assignment or transfer with the Secretary of State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Secretary of State shall record each:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>comprehensive description filed under subsection (b) of this section;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>certificate of publication filed under subsection (b) of this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>transfer filed under subsection (c) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On application, the Secretary of State shall provide to the applicant a certified copy of a recorded filing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Secretary of State shall establish reasonable fees:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>for recording under this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>for providing copies of records filed under this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A certified copy of a comprehensive description and a certificate of publication or of a transfer with the seal of the Secretary of State attached is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>evidence that the person complied with this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>prima facie evidence of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>title to or right to use, collect, or deliver the corresponding returnable containers; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>title to the corresponding returnable textiles.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
