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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="2-115" title_number="2" title_name="Commissioner and Boards" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Commissioner of Financial Regulation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>When the Commissioner determines that a person has engaged in an act or practice constituting a violation of a law, regulation, rule or order over which the Commissioner has jurisdiction, and that immediate action against the person is in the public interest, the Commissioner may in the Commissioner’s discretion issue, without a prior hearing, a summary order directing the person to cease and desist from engaging in the activity, provided that the summary cease and desist order gives the person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Notice of the opportunity for a hearing before the Commissioner to determine whether the summary cease and desist order should be vacated, modified, or entered as final; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notice that the summary cease and desist order will be entered as final if the person does not request a hearing within 15 days of receipt of the summary cease and desist order.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>When the Commissioner determines after notice and a hearing, unless the right to notice and a hearing is waived, that a person has engaged in an act or practice constituting a violation of a law, regulation, rule, or order over which the Commissioner has jurisdiction, the Commissioner may in the Commissioner’s discretion and in addition to taking any other action authorized by law:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Issue a final cease and desist order against the person;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Suspend or revoke the license of the person;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Issue a penalty order against the person imposing a civil penalty not exceeding:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$10,000 for a first violation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$25,000 for each subsequent violation;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Issue an order against the person requiring the person to take affirmative action to correct the violation, including making restitution to any person aggrieved by the violation; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Take any combination of the actions specified in this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In determining the amount of financial penalty to be imposed under subsection (b) of this section, the Commissioner shall consider the following factors:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The seriousness of the violation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The good faith of the violator;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The violator’s history of previous violations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The deleterious effect of the violation on the public and the industry involved;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The assets of the violator; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Any other factors relevant to the determination of the financial penalty.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Notice of any hearing under this section shall be given and the hearing shall be held in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.</text>
  </level>
</section>
