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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="4.5-710" title_number="4.5" title_name="Home Builder Registration" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Home Builder Guaranty Fund">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Division may order payment of a claim against the Guaranty Fund only if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the decision or order of the Division is final in accordance with Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the State Government Article and all rights of appeal are exhausted; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the claimant provides the Division with a certified copy of a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or a final award in arbitration, with all rights of appeal exhausted, in which the court or arbitrator:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>expressly made findings of fact that support the claimant’s right to recover under § 4.5–705(a) of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has found the value of the actual loss.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the Division shall pay approved claims in the order submitted.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If approved claims submitted to the Division against a registrant exceed $500,000, less the amount of unreimbursed claim payments previously made for the registrant, the Division may pay the approved claims proportionately so that each claimant receives the same percentage payment of the claims.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>After the Guaranty Fund is reimbursed, the Division shall pay unsatisfied approved claims.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If there is not enough money in the Guaranty Fund to pay an approved claim wholly or partially, the Division shall pay the unpaid claim:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>when enough money is deposited in the Guaranty Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in the order that each claim originally was filed with a court of competent jurisdiction or submitted to the Division.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
