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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="11-205" title_number="11" title_name="Maryland Higher Education Commission" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Certificates of Approval for Institutions of Postsecondary Education">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commission may summarily order the revocation or suspension of a certificate of approval of a private career school if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The school’s owner or director, or any person in whose name the approval is issued, is convicted of a crime of moral turpitude or a crime relating to the operation of the school if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The conviction is final; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The period for appeal has expired;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An agency that exercises concurrent authority over the private career school has revoked any approval to operate required by law; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Without prior approval of the Commission, the certificate of approval of a school is sold, pledged, or transferred, or there is a change of ownership of a school.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commission may summarily order a revocation or suspension of a certificate of approval of a private career school under subsection (a) of this section only if it gives the school:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Prior oral or written notice of the proposed revocation or suspension and a brief, informal opportunity for response;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Prior or prompt subsequent written notice of the revocation or suspension and the findings on which the revocation or suspension is based; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>After the revocation or suspension is effective, an opportunity to be heard promptly before the Commission.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In any hearing held on the grounds for revocation under subsection (a) of this section, the Commission may limit the issues to be determined to whether:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The alleged conviction in fact occurred;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The alleged revocation under subsection (a)(2) of this section in fact occurred; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The alleged sale, pledge, or transfer, or change of ownership of the private career school in fact occurred.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this subsection, in any hearing held on the grounds for revocation under subsection (a) of this section, a private career school may present matters in mitigation of the offense alleged by the Commission.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
