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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="11-214" title_number="11" title_name="Consumer Credit" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Consumer Loans -- Licensing Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>To discover any violations of the Maryland Consumer Loan Law, the Commissioner, at any time and as often as the Commissioner considers appropriate, may investigate the loans made by and the business of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any licensee; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any other person who makes a loan or on whose behalf a loan is made, whether or not that person:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Acts or claims to act as a principal, agent, or broker; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Acts or claims to act under the Maryland Consumer Loan Law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>For the purposes of this section, the Commissioner:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Shall be given access to any books, papers, records, safes, or vaults of the person under investigation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>May examine under oath any person whose testimony the Commissioner requires.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
