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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="16-312" title_number="16" title_name="Suspension and Debarment of Contractors" subtitle_number="3">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Debarment proceedings under this subtitle against a person or business subject to debarment under this title may be instituted within 5 years after:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a final judgment in a civil or criminal action that constitutes a cause for debarment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an admission, in writing or under oath, of an act or omission that constitutes grounds for a criminal conviction or civil liability that may be a cause for debarment; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the occurrence of any other event that constitutes a cause for debarment.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Debarment proceedings under this subtitle against a person or business subject to debarment under this title may be instituted after the period set forth in subsection (a) of this section, only if such proceedings are brought within 1 year of the time when the State discovered, or by the exercise of ordinary diligence should have discovered, the grounds for debarment under this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
