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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="12-501" title_number="12" title_name="Organization and Supervision of State Procurement" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Disclosure Requirements Regarding Involvement in Deportations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Direct involvement in the deportation of victims” means ownership or operation of the trains on which individuals were transported to extermination camps, death camps, or any facility used to transition individuals to extermination camps or death camps, during the period beginning on September 1, 1939, and ending on September 2, 1945.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Entity” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a corporation, affiliate, or other similar organization or a successor in interest of the corporation, affiliate, or similar organization that controls, or is controlled or owned or partially owned by or under common control with, a corporation that had direct involvement in the deportation of victims; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a member of a partnership or a consortium that includes an entity that certifies that it had direct involvement in the deportation of victims.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“MARC” means the Maryland Area Regional Commuter.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Process of assembling the records” means to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>organize, digitize, and make records available to the public in an Internet accessible, electronic format that is searchable and analyzable; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>prepare to submit the information described in § 12–507 of this subtitle to the State Archivist.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Property” means any personal belongings owned or controlled by victims.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Property” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>jewelry;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>books;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>artifacts;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>precious metals; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>currency.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Records” means material relating to the deportation of victims.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Records” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>documents;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>correspondence;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>memoranda;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>receipts;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>invoices;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>presentations;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>audits; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>any other materials related to items (i) through (vii) of this paragraph.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Victim” means an individual who was on an entity’s train for the purpose of being transported to an extermination camp, death camp, or a facility used to transition individuals to extermination camps or death camps during the period beginning on September 1, 1939 and ending on September 2, 1945.</text>
  </level>
</section>
