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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="13-108.1" title_number="13" title_name="Vehicle Laws -- Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Certificates of Title">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the Administration may develop and implement an electronic system for the issuance of certificates of title and shall develop and implement an electronic system for the recording and releasing of security interests.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The electronic system:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>May provide for recording titling and registration data without the issuance of a certificate of title; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Shall provide for recording and releasing liens without the issuance of a security interest filing.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The electronic system may provide for the electronic transmission of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Vehicle data to and from service providers, as defined in § 13–610 of this title; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Publicly available electronic vehicle records.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection does not apply to a lienholder that is not regularly engaged in the business or practice of financing motor vehicles.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A motor vehicle lienholder shall file electronically with the Administration:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Each of its liens; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>When a lien is paid in full, the lien release.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Administration shall adopt regulations to govern the electronic transmission of records as authorized or required under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
