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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 09.30.01.05" title_num="09" subtitle_num="30" chapter_num="01" heading="Renewal of Registration.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Unless a registration is renewed for a 1-year term as provided in this regulation, the registration expires on the expiration date.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>At least 1 month before a registration expires:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The Department shall mail or electronically transmit to the registrant the following:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>A renewal application form; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>A notice that states:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>The date on which the current registration expires; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>The amount of the renewal fee.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If an electronic transmission under §B(1) of this regulation is returned to the Department as undeliverable, the Department shall mail to the registrant, at the last known address of the registrant, the materials required under paragraph (1) of this subsection within 10 business days of the date the Department received the notice that the electronic transmission was undeliverable.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Before a registration expires, the registrant periodically may renew it for an additional 1–year term, if the registrant:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Submits to the Department a renewal application on the form that the Department provides;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Signs the renewal application under oath;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Updates the information submitted in the original application and states that the information is current;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Complies with each requirement applicable to the original application; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Pays the renewal fee.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Failure of the Department to timely notify a registrant of registration renewal does not affect a registrant’s obligation to file a renewal application prior to the expiration of the registration and payment of a renewal fee.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>