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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 18.16.01.05" title_num="18" subtitle_num="16" chapter_num="01" heading="Grounds for Refusal of a Record.">
  <text>The filing office shall refuse to accept a record and provide an explanation for the refusal if:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An item on the record fails to contain a required entry by the filing party;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>An entry on the record fails to be legible and capable of being imaged by the filing office's information management system;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>A record purporting to add an assignor, grantor, financing party, or assignee fails to include a legible name and address of the assignor, grantor, financing party, or assignee;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>A record fails to identify itself as a new or supplemental filing;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>A record, when applicable, fails to indicate its purpose or fails to provide the file number of the affected rate stabilization property notice existing in the information management system of the filing office;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>A record fails to include the information requested on the approved form as to whether the notice relates to all or a portion of the recovery permitted under a qualified rate order;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>A record fails to include in legible form the:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Qualified rate order number and case number;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Name of the electric company in the order;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Date that value is received for the rate stabilization bonds;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Signatures and names of the assignor or grantor and assignee or financing party; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>If an assignment, date of delivery of the transfer documents to the assignee; or</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>A record includes any other entry or omission inconsistent with the purpose and intent of the Public Utilities Article, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>