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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="12-411" title_number="12" title_name="Miscellaneous Institutions and Activities" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Money Transmission Act">
  <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>On or after November 1 of each year, a license may be renewed for a 1–year term, if the licensee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Otherwise is entitled to be licensed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Files evidence of a surety device required under § 12–412 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Pays to the Commissioner a nonrefundable renewal fee of $2,000; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Submits to the Commissioner:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A renewal application in the form and in accordance with the process that the Commissioner requires;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A financial statement that complies with the requirements of § 12–407(b)(4) of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Any other information that the Commissioner reasonably requires to determine that the renewal applicant continues to be eligible to be licensed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In addition to the license renewal fee required under subsection (b)(3) of this section, an applicant for a license renewal shall pay to NMLS the fee that NMLS imposes in connection with the renewal application.</text>
  </level>
</section>
