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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="4.5-707" title_number="4.5" title_name="Home Builder Registration" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Home Builder Guaranty Fund">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The procedures for notice, hearings, and judicial review that apply to proceedings under Title 3, Subtitle 2 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article also apply to proceedings to recover from the Guaranty Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On receipt of a claim, the Division shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>send a copy of the claim to the registrant alleged to be responsible for the actual loss; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>require a written response to the claim within 30 days.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Division:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall review the claim and any response to it; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may refer the claim for investigation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On the basis of its review and any investigation, the Division may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>set the matter for a hearing with the Office of Administrative Hearings;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>dismiss the claim, if the claim is frivolous, legally insufficient, or made in bad faith; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>if the total claim against a particular registrant does not exceed $7,500, issue a proposed order to pay all or part of the claim or deny the claim.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Division shall send a proposed order issued under subsection (c)(2)(iii) of this section to the claimant and the registrant, at the most recent address on record with the Division, by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>personal delivery; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>both regular mail and certified mail, return receipt requested.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Within 21 days after service, receipt, or attempted delivery of the proposed order, the claimant or registrant may submit to the Division:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a written request for a hearing before the Division; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a written exception to the proposed order.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the claimant or registrant submits a timely exception to the proposed order, the Division may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>issue a revised proposed order;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>set a hearing on the claim; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>dismiss the claim.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Unless the claimant or registrant submits a timely request for a hearing or timely exception, the proposed order is final.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>At a hearing on a claim, the claimant has the burden of proof.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A claimant and registrant may participate in a Guaranty Fund proceeding without representation by counsel.</text>
  </level>
</section>
