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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="12-105.1" title_number="12" title_name="Miscellaneous Institutions and Activities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Check Cashing Services">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person may provide check cashing services without obtaining a license under this subtitle by registering each year with the Commissioner under this section if the person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Charges a fee of up to 1.5% or $1, whichever is greater, of the face amount of the payment instrument per payment instrument;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Provides check cashing services that are incidental to the retail sale of goods or services by the person that is providing the check cashing services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is registered as a check casher money service business with the U.S. Department of Treasury;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Conducts check cashing service transactions within the interior of the business location and not through the use of a mobile unit or an exterior drive–up or walk–up window;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Has conspicuously posted a notice with the following information, in 48 point type or larger, at each business location at which the person provides check cashing services:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The fees charged for check cashing services; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>How to contact the Office of Financial Regulation with comments or complaints; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Provides a receipt to each check cashing services customer that includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The date of the transaction;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The face value of the check cashed;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The fee charged; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The net dollar amount paid to the customer.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To register as a check cashing service, a person shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Obtain and maintain a valid unique identifier issued by NMLS when an account is created with NMLS; and</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Provide information required by the Commissioner through NMLS, including:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>The person’s name and address and, if the person is not an individual:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>The names and addresses of each owner who owns more than 5% of the person; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The officers and director or principal of the person;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>The addresses at which check cashing services will be provided; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>Any other information determined to be necessary by the Commissioner.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person submitting an initial registration or a registration renewal under this section shall apply through NMLS:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>For the initial registration, on or after November 1, 2020; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For registration renewal, each year thereafter.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A person submitting an initial registration or a registration renewal under this section shall pay to NMLS any fees that NMLS imposes in connection with the issuance of the registration or the renewal of the registration.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Sections 12–106 through 12–120 of this subtitle do not apply to a person who registers under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
