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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="10-207" title_number="10" title_name="Governmental Procedures" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Administrative Procedure Act -- Contested Cases">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An agency shall give reasonable notice of the agency’s action.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The notice shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>state concisely and simply:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the facts that are asserted; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>if the facts cannot be stated in detail when the notice is given, the issues that are involved;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>state the pertinent statutory and regulatory sections under which the agency is taking its action;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>state the sanction proposed or the potential penalty, if any, as a result of the agency’s action;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>unless a hearing is automatically scheduled, state that the recipient of notice of an agency’s action may have an opportunity to request a hearing, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>what, if anything, a person must do to receive a hearing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>all relevant time requirements; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>state the direct consequences, sanction, potential penalty, if any, or remedy of the recipient’s failure to exercise in a timely manner the opportunity for a hearing or to appear for a scheduled hearing.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The notice of agency action under this section may be consolidated with the notice of hearing required under § 10-208 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>For purposes of this section, publication in the Maryland Register does not constitute reasonable notice to a party.</text>
  </level>
</section>
