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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-1024" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Credit Grantor Closed End Credit Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, this section applies only to a loan made by a credit grantor to a consumer borrower.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This section does not apply to a loan to which § 3–105.1 of the Real Property Article applies.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Within a reasonable time after a loan to a consumer borrower has been repaid in full and all other obligations under the agreement, note, or other evidence of the loan have been fulfilled, a credit grantor shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Indelibly mark with the word “paid” or “canceled” and return to the consumer borrower each agreement, note, or other evidence of the loan; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Furnish the consumer borrower with a written statement that identifies the loan transaction and states that the loan has been paid in full; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Release any recorded mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement, or other lien securing the loan.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The release shall be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>In writing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Prepared at the expense of the credit grantor.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the release required by this section pertains to a motor vehicle, the release shall be filed electronically with the Motor Vehicle Administration in accordance with § 13–108.1 of the Transportation Article within 5 business days after the credit grantor has received full payment.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the credit grantor does not record the release, the credit grantor shall furnish the consumer borrower with the release in a recordable form.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the credit grantor records the release, the credit grantor shall furnish the consumer borrower with a copy of the release.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a fee is collected by a credit grantor for the recording of a release:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The release shall be recorded by the credit grantor; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any portion of the fee not paid to a governmental entity for recording the release shall be refunded to the borrower.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a fee is not collected by a credit grantor for the recording of a release, the credit grantor is not obligated to record the release.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
