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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="2-116" title_number="2" title_name="Maryland Insurance Administration" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Organization of Administration; General Powers and Duties of Commissioner">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commissioner may send a notice or other communication by electronic means if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the Commissioner is required to deliver, give, mail, serve, or otherwise provide the notice or other communication in writing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the recipient has provided an e–mail address to the Commissioner to receive notices or other communications;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the notice or other communication is sent to the e–mail address provided by the recipient; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the Commissioner maintains proof that the notice was sent to the recipient at the recipient’s e–mail address.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If a person is required to send the Commissioner a notice or other communication and the person is not licensed, certified, or otherwise regulated by the Commissioner:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the person may send the notice or other communication by electronic means approved by the Commissioner; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Commissioner may not require the person to send the notice or other communication by electronic means.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner may require a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise regulated by the Commissioner to send a notice or other communication by electronic means.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Subject to the provisions of the Maryland Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, a notice or other communication sent in accordance with this section shall be presumed to have been received in the ordinary course.</text>
  </level>
</section>
