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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="2-116" title_number="2" title_name="Commissioner and Boards" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Commissioner of Financial Regulation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>When it appears to the Commissioner that a person is about to engage in an act or practice constituting a violation of a law, regulation, rule, or order over which the Commissioner has jurisdiction, the Commissioner may bring an action in the circuit court of the county in which the person resides or transacts business to obtain one or more of the following remedies:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A temporary restraining order; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A temporary or permanent injunction.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>When it appears to the Commissioner 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 bring an action in the circuit court of the county in which the person resides or transacts business to obtain one or more of the following remedies:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A temporary restraining order;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A temporary or permanent injunction;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>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>A declaratory judgment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>An order preventing access to the violator’s assets;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Rescission;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Restitution; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Any other relief as the court deems just.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner may not be required to post a bond in an action under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
