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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="12-921" title_number="12" title_name="Miscellaneous Institutions and Activities" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Maryland Debt Management Services Act">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On or before April 30 of each year, a licensee shall report to the Commissioner on the debt management services business of the licensee conducted during the preceding calendar year.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The annual report shall be on the form that the Commissioner requires.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The report shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>An audited financial statement that is prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes a balance sheet, income statement, statement of changes in fund balances, and statement of cash flow;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An alphabetical list of all debt management counselors who provided services for the licensee during the previous calendar year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The number of consumers for whom the licensee provided debt management services under a debt management services agreement during the preceding calendar year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The number of consumers who signed new debt management services agreements with the licensee during the preceding calendar year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The highest number of consumers for whom the licensee provided debt management services under a debt management services agreement during any month in the preceding calendar year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>The amounts paid by consumers to the licensee, both in total and for each month, during the preceding calendar year, broken down by:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Payments to be disbursed to creditors; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Payments for the licensee’s services;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>The percentage of all consumers who received a consumer education program and subsequently executed a debt management services agreement during the preceding calendar year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>The number of consumers who successfully completed a debt management plan during the preceding calendar year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>The number of consumers who ceased participating in a debt management plan without successfully completing the plan during the preceding calendar year; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>A representative sample of the written summary required under § 12–916(a)(1)(i)2 of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 15 days after the occurrence of any of the following events, a licensee shall file a written report with the Commissioner describing the event and its expected impact on the licensee’s activities in the State:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The filing for bankruptcy or reorganization by the licensee;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The institution of a revocation or suspension proceeding against the licensee by a governmental authority that is related to the licensee’s debt management services business in any state;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A felony indictment or conviction of the licensee, or any of its officers, directors, or debt management counselors, that is related to the licensee’s debt management services business;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The commencement of a civil action by a consumer against the licensee, or its owners, officers, directors, principals, or debt management counselors, that is related to the licensee’s debt management services business;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The filing of any material litigation against the licensee, or its owners, officers, directors, principals, or debt management counselors, that is related to the licensee’s debt management services business; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>A list of all third-party vendors and other service providers that the licensee used in providing debt management services at any time in the preceding calendar year.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The written report required under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be sent to the Commissioner by certified mail, return receipt requested, and include details sufficient to identify the event.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner may require any other reports from a licensee that the Commissioner considers necessary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If a licensee fails to make any report required by this subtitle, the Commissioner may require the licensee to pay a surcharge not exceeding $50 for each day that the report is overdue.</text>
  </level>
</section>
