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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="3-1607" title_number="3" title_name="Employment Standards and Conditions" subtitle_number="16" subtitle_name="Secure Maryland Wage Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commissioner shall enter a place of employment to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>question employees to determine whether an employer has been and is complying with this subtitle and regulations adopted to carry out this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>inspect and copy each record that an employer keeps on wages and hours of employees; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>require each employer to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>attest to the truthfulness of each record that is copied and to sign the copy; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at the option of the employer, submit a complete written statement about the wages, hours, name, and address of each employee, on forms that the Commissioner provides or approves.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each record or statement that the Commissioner or an authorized representative of the Commissioner obtains under subsection (a) of this section is confidential and may be shown only to the Commissioner or a court.</text>
  </level>
</section>
