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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="14-605" title_number="14" title_name="Entities That Act as Health Insurers" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Discount Medical Plan Organizations and Discount Drug Plan Organizations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to the hearing provisions of Title 2 of this article, the Commissioner  may deny a registration to an applicant or refuse to renew, suspend, or revoke the registration of a registrant if the applicant or registrant, or an officer, director, or employee of the applicant or registrant:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>makes a material misstatement or misrepresentation in an application for registration;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a registration for the applicant or registrant or for another;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>has been convicted of a felony or of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>in connection with the administration of a discount medical plan or discount drug plan, commits fraud or engages in illegal or dishonest activities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>has violated any provision of this subtitle or a regulation adopted under it;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>provides a false, falsely disparaging, or misleading oral or written statement, visual description, or other representation of any kind that has the capacity, tendency, or effect of deceiving or misleading consumers;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>makes a representation that a discount medical plan or discount drug plan has a sponsorship, approval, characteristic, use, or benefit that it does not have;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>has violated § 13–301 of the Commercial Law Article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>fails to maintain on file with the Commissioner a current list of the persons authorized to sell, market, or solicit a discount medical plan or discount drug plan established by the applicant or the registrant.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section does not limit any regulatory power of the Commissioner under Title 2 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
