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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="10-489" title_number="10" title_name="Department of Aging" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Continuing Care">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If on issuance of an order of liquidation under this subtitle or at any time during a liquidation proceeding the provider is not clearly solvent, the court, after notice it considers proper and a hearing, shall issue an order that the provider is an impaired provider.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Notwithstanding any previous notice given to creditors, after issuance of an order under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Secretary shall notify each person that may have a claim against the provider that the claim is forever barred unless the person files the claim with the Secretary at a place and within the time specified in the notice.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The time specified in the notice:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall be as set by the court for filing claims; but</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may not be less than 6 months after issuance of the order that the provider is an impaired provider.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The notice shall be given in the manner and for the reasonable period of time that the court orders.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each claimant shall set forth in reasonable detail:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the amount of the claim or the basis on which the amount can be determined;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the facts on which the claim is based; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>any priority asserted by the claimant.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each claim shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>be verified by the affidavit of the claimant or a person authorized to act on behalf of the claimant who has knowledge of the facts; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be supported by any documents that may be material to the claim.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Each claim shall be filed with the receiver in the State on or before the last date specified under this subtitle for filing of claims.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The receiver shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>report a claim to the court:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>within 10 days after receiving the claim; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>within an additional period set by the court for good cause shown; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>recommend in the report action to be taken on the claim.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On receipt of the report of the receiver, the court shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>set a time for hearing the claim; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>direct the claimant or receiver to give notice as the court determines to each person that appears to the court to be interested in the claim.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The notice given in accordance with this subsection shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>specify the time and place of the hearing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>state concisely:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the amount and nature of the claim;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>any priority asserted by the claimant; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the recommendation of the receiver about the claim.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At the hearing specified under subsection (d) of this section:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>each person with an interest in the claim may appear; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the court shall issue an order in which the court allows in part, or disallows the claim.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An order under this subsection is a final order subject to appeal.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
