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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="12-6C-05.1" title_number="12" title_name="Pharmacists and Pharmacies" subtitle_number="6C" subtitle_name="Wholesale Distributor Permitting and Prescription Drug Integrity Act">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “Central Repository” means the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection applies to applicants located in the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>As part of an application to the Central Repository for a State and national criminal history records check, the designated representative and the immediate supervisor of the designated representative of an applicant shall submit to the Central Repository:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A complete set of legible fingerprints taken in a format approved by the Director of the Central Repository and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The fee authorized under § 10–221(b)(7) of the Criminal Procedure Article for access to Maryland criminal history records; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>In accordance with §§ 10–201 through 10–229 of the Criminal Procedure Article, the Central Repository shall forward the criminal history records information of the designated representative and the immediate supervisor of the designated representative of an applicant to the Board and the applicant.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Information obtained from the Central Repository under this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is confidential;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>May not be redisseminated; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>May be used only for the permitting purpose authorized by this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The subject of a criminal history records check under this subsection may contest the contents of the criminal history records information issued by the Central Repository as provided in § 10–223 of the Criminal Procedure Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>If criminal history record information is reported to the Central Repository after the date of the initial criminal history records check, the Central Repository shall provide to the Board and the individual revised criminal history record information for the individual.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies to applicants located outside the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The designated representative and the immediate supervisor of the designated representative of an applicant shall submit to a criminal history records check by the applicant’s state of residence, in accordance with the laws of the applicant’s state of residence.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The criminal history records check shall consist of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A state criminal history records check for the applicant’s state of residence; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A national criminal history records check.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The designated representative and the immediate supervisor of the designated representative of an applicant shall request the appropriate entity in the applicant’s state of residence to forward the results of the criminal history records check to the Board and the applicant.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The Board shall ensure that information obtained under this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is kept confidential;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is not redisseminated; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Is used only for the permitting purpose authorized by this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
