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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="5-110" title_number="5" title_name="Firearms" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Regulated Firearms">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Secretary shall disapprove an application for a dealer’s license if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the Secretary determines that the applicant supplied false information or made a false statement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Secretary determines that the application is not properly completed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the Secretary receives a written notification from the applicant’s licensed attending physician that the applicant suffers from a mental disorder and is a danger to the applicant or to another; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the Secretary determines that the applicant intends that a person who is not eligible to be issued a dealer’s license or whose dealer’s license has been revoked or suspended:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>will participate in the management or operation of the business for which the license is sought; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>holds a legal or equitable interest in the business for which the license is sought.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If the Secretary disapproves an application for a dealer’s license, the Secretary shall notify the applicant in writing of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the disapproval of the application; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the reason the application was denied.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person whose application for a dealer’s license has been disapproved may not engage in the business of selling, renting, or transferring regulated firearms, unless the disapproval has been subsequently withdrawn by the Secretary or overruled by a court in accordance with subsection (d) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An applicant who is aggrieved because the Secretary has disapproved the application for a dealer’s license may appeal to the circuit court of the county where the applicant’s place of business is to be located.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The appeal must be filed not later than 30 days after the Secretary mails notification of disapproval to the applicant.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the appeal is properly and timely filed, the court shall affirm or reverse the disapproval of the Secretary depending on whether the court finds that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the applicant supplied false information or made a false statement; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the application was not properly completed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Secretary or the applicant may appeal the decision of the circuit court to the Court of Special Appeals.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
