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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="12-924" title_number="12" title_name="Credit Regulations" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Credit Grantor Revolving Credit Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, this section applies only to a plan between a credit grantor and a consumer borrower under which a credit grantor has taken any property as security for credit extended under the plan.</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>A credit grantor shall release any recorded mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement, or other lien securing the extension of credit within a reasonable time after:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The outstanding unpaid indebtedness under a plan has been paid in full;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>There are no further obligations of the credit grantor or the consumer borrower under the plan; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The account under the plan is closed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The release shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>In writing; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Prepared at the expense of the credit grantor.</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>
