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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".11" citation="COMAR 29.04.05.11" title_num="29" subtitle_num="04" chapter_num="05" heading="Registration Renewal.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The Secretary shall stagger the terms of registrations. A renewal shall be for a term that expires on the last day of the applicant's birth month following the third full year after issuance.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>At least 1 month before a registration expiration, the Secretary shall mail to the licensee a:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Renewal application form; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Notice that states the:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Date the current registration expires,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Date by which the renewal application shall be received for the renewal to be issued and mailed to the licensee to avoid registration expiration, and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Amount of the renewal fee.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Before receiving a registration renewal notice from the Secretary, a registrant may renew a registration for an additional 3-year term if the registrant:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Is entitled to be registered;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Submits a renewal application to the Secretary;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Submits a set of legible fingerprints of the registrant, on forms approved by the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Submits two photographs or a digital image approved by the Secretary, as prescribed in Regulation .06B(4)(d) of this chapter; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Pays a renewal fee.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>To renew a registration, the registrant shall pay:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A renewal fee that is the higher of $15 or an amount the Secretary determines based on actual processing costs;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The cost of the background checks; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>To the Maryland State Police or to the licensed security systems agency which employs or intends to employ the registrant as a security systems technician, the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for forwarding to the Maryland State Police.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Except as provided in §F of this regulation, before renewing a registration, the Secretary shall conduct a national criminal record check for each registrant who applies for a registration renewal.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>The Secretary may waive the national criminal record check required under §E of this regulation for a registrant who was registered under Regulation .10 of this chapter if the registrant:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Submits two photographs of the registrant or a digital image approved by the Secretary, as prescribed in Regulation .06B(4)(d) of this chapter;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Pays a $15 processing fee; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Shows that the license or registration:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Issued by another state was renewed by that other state within 1 year of the expiration date of the registration issued under Regulation .10 of this chapter, and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Renewal process in the other state included a state and national criminal record check.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>The registration of each registrant who meets the requirements of this regulation shall be renewed.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>Temporary Registration.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>If the national criminal records check required for renewal is not completed before a registration expires, a temporary registration shall be issued if all other requirements are met.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A temporary registration expires at the earlier of the:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Completion of the records check; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Renewal or denial of the registration.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>