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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="12-111" title_number="12" title_name="Vehicle Laws -- Motor Vehicle Administration" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Administration in General">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Administration shall keep a record of each application or other document filed with it and each certificate or other official document that it issues.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to § 4–320 of the General Provisions Article, and except as otherwise provided by law, all records of the Administration are public records and open to public inspection during office hours.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (4) of this subsection, the Administrator may classify as confidential and not open to public inspection any record or record entry:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>That is over 5 years old; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>That relates to any happening that occurred over 5 years earlier.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Subject to § 4–320 of the General Provisions Article, a record or record entry of any age shall be open to inspection by authorized representatives of any federal, State, or local governmental agency.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (3) of this subsection, the Administrator may not open to public inspection any record or record entry that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>All or part of a licensed driver’s public driving record; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Over 3 years old.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (6) of this subsection, the Administration may not permit public inspection of a digital photographic image or signature of an individual, or the actual stored data thereof, recorded by the Administration.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The Administration may make a digital photographic image or signature of an individual, or the actual stored data thereof, recorded by the Administration available to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The courts;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Criminal justice agencies;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Driver license authorities;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The individual;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The individual’s attorney;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Third parties designated by the individual; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>The Child Support Administration.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except for records required by law to be kept in their original or other specified form, the Administrator may order any record of the Administration to be kept on microfilm or in other microform, and the original destroyed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Except for records required by law to be kept longer, the Administrator may destroy any record of the Administration that it has kept for 3 years or more and that the Administrator considers obsolete and unnecessary to the work of the Administration.</text>
  </level>
</section>
