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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="10-707" title_number="10" title_name="Regulation of Insurance Professions" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Portable Electronics Vendors">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commissioner may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a limited lines license issued under this subtitle after notice and opportunity for a hearing under Title 2, Subtitle 2 of this article if the vendor or an employee or authorized representative of the vendor has:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>willfully violated this article or another law of the State that relates to insurance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>operated without a limited lines license as required under this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>failed to provide the disclosures required under § 10–705 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>offered or sold unapproved insurance products;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>failed to hold an appointment with an insurer;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>failed to train employees or authorized representatives as required under § 10–705 of this subtitle; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>misrepresented pertinent facts or policy provisions concerning a policy of portable electronics insurance.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A vendor and the employees and authorized representatives of the vendor may not advertise, represent, or otherwise hold themselves out as an authorized insurer or as an insurance producer for any kind or subdivision of insurance, except as provided in this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Instead of, or in addition to, suspending or revoking a limited lines license issued under this subtitle, the Commissioner may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>impose on the vendor a penalty of not more than $2,500 for each violation of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>require that restitution be made to any person who has suffered financial injury because of a violation of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
