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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="21-812" title_number="21" title_name="Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Frozen Desserts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A license expires on the first anniversary of its effective date, unless the license is renewed for a 1-year term as provided in this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>At least 1 month before the license expires, the Secretary shall send to the licensee, by first-class mail to the last known address of the licensee, a renewal notice that states:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The date on which the current license expires;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The date by which the renewal application must be received by the Secretary for the renewal to be issued and mailed before the license expires; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The amount of the renewal fee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before a license expires, the licensee periodically may renew it for an additional 1-year term, if the licensee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Otherwise is entitled to a license;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Pays to the Secretary a renewal fee established by the Secretary under § 2-104 of this article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Submits to the Secretary:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A renewal application on the form that the Secretary requires; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Satisfactory evidence of compliance with the requirements of this section for renewal.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The renewal fee under this section shall be based on:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the licensee has a manufacturing facility located in this State, the annual production of any frozen dessert or frozen dessert mix in this State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the licensee has a manufacturing facility not located in this State, the annual sales of any frozen dessert or frozen dessert mix in this State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Secretary shall renew the license of each licensee who meets the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A license is not transferable.</text>
  </level>
</section>
