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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="17-704" title_number="17" title_name="Special Provisions -- State and Local Subdivisions" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Investment Activities in Iran">
  <text>** CONTINGENCY – IN EFFECT – CHAPTERS 446 AND 447 OF 2012 **</text>
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On or before December 31, 2012, the Board shall use credible information available to the public to create a list of persons that the Board determines to be engaged in investment activities in Iran as described in § 17–702 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board shall update the list at least every 180 days.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Before the Board includes a person on the list, the Board shall provide the person with 90 days’ written notice that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Board intends to include the person on the list; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>inclusion on the list would make the person ineligible to bid on, submit a proposal for, or enter into or renew a contract with a public body for goods or services.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The notice required under paragraph (3) of this subsection shall specify that if the person ceases engagement in investment activities in Iran as described in § 17–702 of this subtitle, the person may become eligible for a future contract or contract renewal with a public body for goods or services on removal from the list.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board shall provide a person with an opportunity to comment in writing to the Board that the person is not engaged in investment activities in Iran.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the person demonstrates to the Board that the person is not engaged in investment activities in Iran as described in § 17–702 of this subtitle, the Board may not include the person on the list.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Board shall remove a person from the list if the person demonstrates to the Board that the person no longer is engaged in investment activities in Iran as described in § 17–702 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Board shall make every reasonable effort to avoid erroneously including a person on the list.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Board shall publish the list on the Internet.</text>
  </level>
</section>
