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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="11-511" title_number="11" title_name="Consumer Credit" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Mortgage Lender Law">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to any regulations the Commissioner adopts in connection with the transition to NMLS, an initial license term shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Begin on the day the license is issued; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Expire on December 31 of the year:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The license is issued, if the license is issued before November 1; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Succeeding the year that the license is issued, if the license is issued on or after November 1.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>At least 60 days before its expiration, a license may be renewed if the licensee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Otherwise is entitled to be licensed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Pays to the Commissioner a nonrefundable renewal fee set by the Commissioner; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Submits to the Commissioner:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A renewal application on the form that the Commissioner requires; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Satisfactory evidence of compliance with any continuing education requirements set by regulations adopted by the Commissioner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Subject to any regulations the Commissioner adopts in connection with the transition to NMLS, a renewal term shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Be for a period of 1 year;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Begin on January 1 of each year after the initial term; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Expire on December 31 of the year the renewal term begins.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>In addition to the license renewal fee required under subsection (b)(2) of this section, an applicant for a license renewal shall pay to NMLS any fees that NMLS imposes in connection with the renewal application.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>If a license is surrendered voluntarily, or is suspended or revoked, the Commissioner may not refund any part of the license fee regardless of the time remaining in the license term.</text>
  </level>
</section>
