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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 19A.02.02.05" title_num="19A" subtitle_num="02" chapter_num="02" heading="Disclosure Requirements.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An employee or official shall disclose a financial interest prohibited under Regulation .02 of this chapter:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>For an official or employee required to file a financial disclosure statement under General Provisions Article, §5-601, Annotated Code of Maryland, on the financial disclosure statement for the reporting period in which the official or employee held the financial interest;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If the official or employee knows or has reason to know that the entity is subject to the authority of the official or employee, subject to the authority of the official’s or employee’s governmental unity, or is negotiating or has entered a contract with the official’s or employee’s governmental unit, on the form provided by the Ethics Commission for an official or employee who:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Is not required to file a financial disclosure statement under General Provisions Article, §5-601, Annotated Code of Maryland; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Did not hold the financial interest during the reporting period covered by the most recent financial disclosure statement filed under General Provisions Article, §5-601, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>An official or employee shall file a form required by §A(2) of this regulation with the Commission on or before the latter of:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Acquiring the financial interest; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Acquiring knowledge that or reason to have knowledge that the entity:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Is subject to the authority of the official or employee or the government unit with which the official or employee is affiliated; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Is negotiating or has entered a contract with the governmental unit with which the official or employee is affiliated.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>An official or employee has reason to know that an entity does business with the official’s or employee’s governmental unit if the entity is listed as doing business with the official’s or employee’s governmental unit that is provided by the Commission or is available on the Commission’s website.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>