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<section article="gpu" article_name="Public Utilities" number="19-102" title_number="19" title_name="Ethics" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except where provisions of this title exceed the minimum standards of the Maryland Public Ethics Law, commissioners and employees of the Commission are subject to the conflict of interest and lobbying provisions of the Maryland Public Ethics Law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a commissioner, employee, contractor, or subcontractor of the Commission may not willfully and knowingly violate:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>any provision of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Maryland Public Ethics Law; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>any Commission regulation governing:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>conflicts of interest;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>financial disclosure;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>lobbying; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>ethics in public contracting.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
