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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 12.15.05.03" title_num="12" subtitle_num="15" chapter_num="05" heading="Private Provider Performing Fingerprinting Services and Demographic Data Collection.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The Central Repository may authorize a private provider to perform fingerprinting services and demographic data collection for a request for a criminal history records check for non-criminal justice purposes.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The Central Repository shall establish minimum administrative and operational requirements for private providers to perform fingerprinting services and demographic data collection for non-criminal justice purposes.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Fingerprinting services and demographic data collection for non-criminal justice purposes include:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Electronic transmission of an individual's fingerprints and demographic data to the Central Repository for a criminal history records check for non-criminal justice purposes;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Completion of forms required for a request for a criminal history records check by obtaining information about the individual being fingerprinted; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Collection of fees and payment of invoices according to Regulation .07 of this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Except for purposes under §E of this regulation, a private provider authorized to perform fingerprinting services and demographic data collection for non-criminal justice purposes under this chapter shall make the private provider's fingerprinting services available to a person requesting a criminal history records check for non-criminal justice purposes.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>A private provider may not perform fingerprinting services or demographic data collection for the following purposes:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Sex offender registration;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Hazardous materials endorsements—commercial driver's licenses; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Criminal justice purposes.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>