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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="3-316" title_number="3" title_name="Kinds of Insurers" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Surplus Lines Insurance">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless a certificate of qualification is renewed for a 2–year term as provided in this section, the certificate of qualification expires every other year on the date stated on the certificate of qualification.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>At least 1 month before a certificate of qualification expires, the Commissioner shall send to the holder of the certificate of qualification, at the last known address or electronic mail address of the holder on record a notice that states:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the process for renewing the certificate of qualification;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the date by which the Commissioner must receive the renewal application; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the amount of the renewal fee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before a certificate of qualification expires, the holder periodically may renew it for an additional 2–year term, if the holder:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>otherwise is entitled to a certificate of qualification;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>submits to the Commissioner a renewal application:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>on the form that the Commissioner provides; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>in an electronic format that the Commissioner approves;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>pays to the Commissioner the renewal fee required by § 2–112 of this article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>complies with the bond requirement of § 3–313 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>For an individual, a certificate of qualification renewed under this section shall have an expiration date that is the last day of the month in which the holder of the certificate of qualification was born.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If mailed, an application for renewal of a certificate of qualification shall be considered made in a timely manner if it is postmarked on or before the expiration date of the certificate of qualification.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If submitted electronically, an application for renewal of a certificate of qualification shall be considered made in a timely manner if, on or before the expiration date of the certificate of qualification, the application:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is addressed properly or otherwise directed properly to an information processing system that the Administration has designated or uses for the purpose of receiving electronic applications and from which the Administration is able to retrieve the application;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is in a form capable of being processed by that system; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>enters an information processing system outside the control of the sender or of a person that sent the electronic application on behalf of the sender; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>enters a region of the information processing system designated or used by the Administration that is under the control of the Administration or an agent of the Administration.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Commissioner shall renew the certificate of qualification of each holder who meets the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Commissioner may adopt regulations to carry out this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
