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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="2-207" title_number="2" title_name="Maryland Insurance Administration" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Enforcement">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commissioner shall conduct an examination of an insurer, health maintenance organization, or private review agent at:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the home office of a domestic insurer, foreign insurer, health maintenance organization, or private review agent;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the United States branch office of an alien insurer, health maintenance organization, or private review agent; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a branch or agency office of the insurer, health maintenance organization, or private review agent.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Commissioner shall conduct an examination of a person other than an insurer, health maintenance organization, or private review agent at:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the place of business of the person; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any place where records of the person are kept.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each person that is examined and its officers, employees, agents, and representatives shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>produce and make freely available to the Commissioner or an examiner the accounts, records, documents, files, information, assets, and matters that are in the possession or control of the person and relate to the subject of the examination; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>otherwise help the examination to the extent reasonably possible.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>At the expense of the person being examined, the Commissioner may retain an actuary, accountant, or other expert, who is not otherwise a part of the staff of the Administration, if reasonably necessary to conduct an examination under this article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The actuary, accountant, or other expert may rewrite, post, or balance the accounts of the person being examined.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the Commissioner considers it necessary to value real estate involved in an examination, the Commissioner may request in writing that the person being examined appoint one or more competent appraisers, approved by the Commissioner, to appraise the real estate.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the person does not appoint an appraiser within 10 days after the request was delivered to the person, the Commissioner may appoint an appraiser.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The appraisal shall be made promptly, and a copy of the appraisal report shall be provided to the Commissioner.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The person being examined shall pay the reasonable expense of the appraisal.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
