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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-902" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Credit Grantor Revolving Credit Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Any credit grantor may, subject to the other provisions of this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Offer and extend credit under a revolving credit plan to a borrower and in that connection charge and collect the interest, finance charges, and other charges permitted by this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Take any security as collateral as may be acceptable to the credit grantor.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If real property is taken as security, the credit grantor shall record the entire line of credit when the credit plan is established.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Without limiting subsection (a) of this section, credit may be extended under a revolving credit plan by a credit grantor’s acquisition of obligations arising out of the honoring of a credit device made available to a borrower under a plan, whether directly or indirectly by means of telephone, point of sale terminal, automated teller machine or other electronic or similar device, or through the mails, by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A merchant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A bank or other financial institution chartered or organized under the laws of this or any other state, the District of Columbia, the United States or any district, territory, or possession of the United States, or any foreign country;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any other person or entity; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A government or governmental subdivision or agency.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
