<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="12-413.1" title_number="12" title_name="Miscellaneous Institutions and Activities" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Money Transmission Act">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Agent” includes an authorized delegate, a subagent, and a subdelegate of a licensee.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Elder adult” has the meaning stated in § 1–306 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Financial abuse” has the meaning stated in § 1–306 of this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Financial exploitation” has the meaning stated in § 1–306 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section does not apply to a licensee or an agent that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Engages in the business of money transmission solely through the Internet; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Engages in:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Selling or issuing stored value devices, traveler’s checks, or money orders, or providing bill payer services; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Any combination of selling or issuing stored value devices, traveler’s checks, or money orders, or providing bill payer services; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Does not engage in any other business regulated under this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On or before April 1 of each year, a licensee shall provide to each agent, through which it engages in the business of money transmission, training materials on how to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Recognize financial abuse and financial exploitation of an elder adult; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Respond appropriately if the agent suspects that the agent is being asked to engage in the business of money transmission for a fraudulent transaction in which an elder adult is the victim of financial abuse or financial exploitation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A licensee shall provide the training materials required under subsection (c) of this section to each newly appointed agent within 1 month after appointment of the agent.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A licensee shall include a clear, concise, and conspicuous fraud warning on all transmittal forms used by an individual to send money to another individual.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The fraud warning shall include a toll–free telephone number for individuals to call to report fraud or suspected fraud.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A licensee shall monitor the activities of its agents relating to transmittals by individuals.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A licensee shall allow an individual to voluntarily be disqualified from sending money transmissions from or receiving money transmissions in the State.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A licensee may require an individual to provide written notice of the individual’s disqualification to the licensee at the address on the licensee’s license.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Unless extended under paragraph (2) of this subsection or terminated under paragraph (3) of this subsection, a disqualification is effective until January 1 of the year following the year in which notice of the individual’s disqualification is given to the licensee.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Before a disqualification becomes ineffective, an individual may extend the disqualification by giving written notice of the extension to the licensee at the address on the licensee’s license.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An extension of a disqualification under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph is effective until January 1 of the year following the year in which notice of the extension is given to the licensee.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An individual may terminate a disqualification at any time by giving written notice of the termination to the licensee at the address on the licensee’s license.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
