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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="12-419" title_number="12" title_name="Miscellaneous Institutions and Activities" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Money Transmission Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The original buyer of a payment instrument may request a duplicate of the instrument if the request is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>In writing; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If required by the licensee, accompanied by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>An affidavit that gives the reason for the request and states the facts relating to the loss of or other failure to produce the original payment instrument; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A personal indemnity bond or, if the total amount of the payment instruments for which a duplicate is requested is $150 or more, a lost instrument corporate bond instead of a personal indemnity bond.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each licensee shall issue or refuse to issue a duplicate payment instrument within 30 days after a request for the duplicate is made under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
