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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" citation="COMAR 24.01.07.06" title_num="24" subtitle_num="01" chapter_num="07" heading="Audit; Cancellation or Repayment of State Benefit.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An entity shall keep complete and accurate records supporting any information or statement provided to an agency by the entity in the Corporate Diversity Addendum or the affidavit described in Regulation .03B of this chapter for a period of 5 years from the date of submission.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A State agency that has provided a State benefit to an entity subject to this chapter may at any time before or up to 5 years after the provision of the State benefit require any information provided to the agency by the entity in the Corporate Diversity Addendum be audited by the State.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>If the State agency that has provided a State benefit to an entity subject to this chapter determines that any representation made by the entity in its Corporate Diversity Addendum or the affidavit described in Regulation .03B of this chapter in connection with its application for the State benefit is false when made, the agency may:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Cancel the award of the State benefit, in whole or in part as the agency may determine;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Require repayment of any capital grant or recapture of any tax credit;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Initiate a State debarment proceeding against an entity that has received a State contract; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Seek any other remedy available at law.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>