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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="11-512" title_number="11" title_name="Consumer Credit" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Mortgage Lender Law">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A licensee may not add, delete, or modify a location required to be listed in NMLS under § 11–505(f)(2) or (3) of this subtitle unless:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The licensee provides to the Commissioner, through NMLS and in accordance with any regulations the Commissioner adopts, notice of the addition, deletion, or modification;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The addition, deletion, or modification of the location is recorded with the information associated with the licensee’s license in NMLS; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The addition, deletion, or modification of the location otherwise complies with this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The licensee may not do business at a location required to be listed in NMLS by § 11–505(f)(2) or (3) of this subtitle until the location is recorded with the information associated with the licensee’s license in NMLS.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A licensee may not undergo a change in control unless the licensee:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Notifies the Commissioner through NMLS of the proposed change;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Makes a request through NMLS that the Commissioner approve the proposed change;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Provides any information the Commissioner may require under paragraph (3) of this subsection; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Receives the approval of the Commissioner through NMLS.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For purposes of this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>If the licensee is a corporation, “control” means direct or indirect ownership of, or the right to control, 25% or more of the voting shares of the licensee, or the ability to elect a majority of the directors or otherwise effect a change in policy; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the licensee is an entity other than a corporation, “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of the licensee, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Within 60 days after receiving a request for approval of a proposed change in control, the Commissioner may require the licensee to provide any information deemed necessary to determine whether a new application is required because of the proposed change in control.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Commissioner shall approve or deny a request for approval of a proposed change in control:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Within 60 days after the date the Commissioner receives the request; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the Commissioner requests information from the licensee under paragraph (3) of this subsection, within 60 days after the date the information is received by the Commissioner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>If the Commissioner does not approve or deny a request for approval of a proposed change in control as provided under paragraph (4) of this subsection, the request shall be deemed approved.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>In addition to any sanctions which may be imposed under this subtitle by the Commissioner, a licensee who fails to provide in a timely manner the notice required under subsection (a)(1) or (c)(1) of this section shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>For each such failure pay to the Commissioner a surcharge in the amount of $500; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For a licensee who fails to provide in a timely manner the notice required under subsection (c)(1) of this section, file with the Commissioner an application for a new license, together with all applicable application and investigation fees.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
