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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="8-313" title_number="8" title_name="Home Improvement" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Licensing">
  <level label="a">
    <text>With the approval of the Secretary, the Commission may appoint a home improvement hearing board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A hearing board shall consist of at least 3 members of the Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Of the members of the hearing board:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>at least 1 shall have experience in some phase of the business of home improvement; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at least 1 shall be a consumer member of the Commission.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commission shall appoint a chairman from among the members of the hearing board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Commission may refer to a hearing board a charge, claim, complaint, or license application made by the Commission or by any person under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Each procedure applicable to a hearing before the Commission is applicable to a hearing before the hearing board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A decision of the hearing board shall be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>by a majority vote of the entire membership of the hearing board;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>in writing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>submitted to the Commission.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Unless, within 15 days after the hearing board submits its decision to the Commission, the Commission or a member of the Commission finds that a full hearing by the Commission is required:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the decision of the hearing board is final;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the decision is a final decision of the Commission; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a party who is aggrieved by the decision may take an appeal as provided in § 8-314 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
