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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="12-308" title_number="12" title_name="Waterworks and Waste Systems Operators" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Certification of Superintendents, Operators, and Industrial Operators">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of § 12–309 of this subtitle, the Board may deny certification or temporary certification to any applicant, if the applicant:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a certificate or temporary certificate for the applicant or for another; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fraudulently or deceptively uses a certificate or temporary certificate.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of § 12–309 of this subtitle, the Board may reprimand any certificate holder, or suspend or revoke a certification or temporary certification, if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The certificate holder:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a certificate or temporary certificate for the certificate holder or another; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Fraudulently or deceptively uses a certificate or temporary certificate; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board has any other reasonable cause for the action.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
