# COMAR Title 24 — Department of Commerce

## Subtitle 01 — Office of the Secretary

### Chapter 01 — Public Information Requests

#### Regulation .07 Notification of Persons in Interest.

*COMAR 24.01.01.07*

A. The custodian, unless prohibited by law, may notify a person in interest who is the subject of a public record that a request for inspection or copying of that record has been received.

B. In determining whether to notify the person in interest of the pending request, the custodian shall take into account any request from the person in interest, submitted simultaneously with information submitted to the Department, that the information not be disclosed without consultation between the custodian and the person in interest.

C. The custodian may consider the views of the person in interest before deciding whether to disclose the record.