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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="11-106" title_number="11" title_name="Explosives" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Licenses to Engage in Business as Manufacturer or Dealer or to Possess Explosives">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An applicant for a license to engage in business as a manufacturer or dealer, to possess explosives other than explosives for use in firearms, or to possess explosives for use in firearms, and an applicant for a blaster’s permit shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>submit an application to the State Fire Marshal on the form that the State Fire Marshal provides;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>submit the documents required under this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>pay to the State Fire Marshal the fees required under subsection (d) of this section and the cost of the criminal history records check.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The application form shall require the following information:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the name and address of the applicant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the reason for desiring the requested license or permit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>if the applicant is an individual, the citizenship of the individual;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>if the applicant is a partnership, association, or corporation, the names, addresses, and citizenship of the partners of the partnership or officers and directors of the association or corporation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>proof of liability insurance in the amount that the State Fire Prevention Commission sets.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>As part of the application for a license or permit, the applicant shall submit to the State Fire Marshal the fingerprints required under subsection (e)(3)(i) of this section for each applicant and each officer, agent, or employee of the applicant who will be handling explosives.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>As part of the application for a license or permit, the State Fire Marshal shall require the applicant to submit with the application:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the place where the explosives will be stored;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the place where the explosives will be used; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the specific purpose for using the explosives.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Each application for a license or permit shall be accompanied by the following fee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>license to engage in business as a manufacturer of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>less than 500 pounds of explosives     $150</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>500 pounds or more of explosives but less than 5,000 pounds     $300</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>5,000 pounds  or  more of explosives but less than 10,000 pounds      $750</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>10,000 pounds or more of explosives     $1,500</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>license to engage in business as a dealer for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>retail only      $75</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>users     $150</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>wholesale and retail     $300</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>license to possess explosives other than for use in firearms     $150</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>license to possess explosives for use in firearms     $150</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>storage license for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Class A - 500 pounds or more of explosives     $150</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Class B - less than 500 pounds of explosives     $75</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>blaster’s permit     $60</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “Central Repository” means the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Fire Marshal shall apply to the Central Repository for a State and national criminal history records check for each applicant and each officer, agent, or employee of the applicant who will be handling explosives.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>As part of the application for a criminal history records check, the State Fire Marshal shall submit to the Central Repository:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>two complete sets of legible fingerprints of each applicant and each officer, agent, or employee of the applicant who will be handling explosives, taken on forms approved by the Central Repository and the Federal Bureau of Investigation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the fee authorized under § 10-221(b)(7) of the Criminal Procedure Article for access to State criminal history records; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>In accordance with Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the Criminal Procedure Article, the Central Repository shall forward to the applicant and the State Fire Marshal a printed statement of the criminal history record information of the subject of the criminal history records check.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Information obtained from the Central Repository under this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall be confidential and may not be disseminated; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>shall be used only for the purpose authorized by this subsection.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The subject of a criminal history records check under this subsection may challenge the contents of the printed statement issued by the Central Repository as provided in § 10-223 of the Criminal Procedure Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
