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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="11-414" title_number="11" title_name="Maryland Securities Act" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Requirements of Broker-Dealers, Agents, Investment Advisers, Investment Adviser Representatives, and Federal Covered Advisers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>By order, the Commissioner may cancel a registration or application, if the Commissioner finds that the applicant or registrant:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Has abandoned the application;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is no longer in existence;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Has ceased to do business as a broker-dealer, agent, investment adviser, or investment adviser representative;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is subject to an adjudication of mental incompetence or the control of a committee, conservator, or guardian; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Cannot be located after reasonable search.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commissioner may deem abandoned a notice filing that a federal covered adviser has filed under § 11-405 of this subtitle, if the Commissioner finds that the federal covered adviser:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Has abandoned the notice filing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is no longer in existence;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Has ceased to do business as a federal covered adviser;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is subject to adjudication of mental incompetence or to the control of a committee, conservator, or guardian; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Cannot be located after a reasonable search.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
