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<section article="gca" article_name="Corporations and Associations" number="11-503.1" title_number="11" title_name="Maryland Securities Act" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Registration of Securities">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person may not offer or sell a federal covered security in this State unless the documents required by this section are filed and the fees required by § 11–506 or § 11–510.1 of this subtitle are paid.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>With respect to a federal covered security specified in § 18(b)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, the Commissioner may require, by rule, order, or otherwise, the filing of the following documents:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Before the initial offer of the federal covered security in this State:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A notice in a form that the Commissioner requires or the documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A consent to service of process signed by the issuer; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The fee required under § 11–510.1 of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After the initial offer of the federal covered security in this State:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Any document that is part of an amendment filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>As necessary to compute fees, an annual or periodic report of the value of the federal covered securities offered or sold in this State together with any fee required under § 11–510.1(b) and (c) of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>With respect to a security that is a federal covered security specified in § 18(b)(3) or (4) of the Securities Act of 1933, the Commissioner may require, by rule, order, or otherwise, the issuer to file:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A consent to service of process signed by the issuer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The fee required under § 11–506 of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If an issuer fails to timely file the items under subsection (b) or (c) of this section and a stop order has not been issued under subsection (e) of this section, the issuer may satisfy the requirements of subsection (b) or (c) of this section, as applicable, by making a late filing and paying the fees required for a late filing under § 11–506 or § 11–510.1 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An issuer that makes a late filing in accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection will terminate any right or liability that accrues based on the failure to satisfy the requirements of subsection (b) or (c) of this section if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>There is no action pending under subsection (e) of this section or any other provision of this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A person with the right has not relied detrimentally on the absence of the filing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The late filing is made within 1 year of the original due date of the filing.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Except for a federal covered security specified in § 18(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, the Commissioner may issue a stop order suspending the offer and sale of a federal covered security, if the Commissioner finds that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The order is in the public interest; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>There is a failure to comply with any condition established under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Commissioner may waive, by rule, order, or otherwise, the filing of any document required under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
