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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 31.04.20.05" title_num="31" subtitle_num="04" chapter_num="20" heading="Information.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The Commissioner may request accounts, records, documents, files, or other information needed to complete a market conduct action.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The Commissioner may include a reference to the applicable law pertaining to the request.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>The Commissioner may request information through:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A survey;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>An interrogatory;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>An interview; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Any other procedure identified by the Commissioner.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Whenever a person receives a request from the Commissioner for information, the person shall provide the requested information:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Within the time specified by the Commissioner, unless an extension has been granted by the Commissioner in accordance with §§G and H of this regulation; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>In the manner specified by the Commissioner.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>When the person submits the information to the Commissioner, the person shall provide written certification, signed by an individual with authority to bind the person providing the response, that the:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Information is, to the best of that individual's knowledge, information, and belief, a full, complete, and truthful response to the Commissioner's request; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Individual making the certification has undertaken an adequate inquiry to make the required certification.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>If the person fails to provide the certification required under §E of this regulation, the absence of this certification:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Does not relieve the person responding to a request of the Commissioner of the duty to provide a full, complete, and truthful response to the Commissioner's request; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Shall constitute an explicit representation by the person that the response is full, complete, and truthful.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>A person may submit a written request, stating the reason for the request, to the Commissioner to extend the time for the submission of information:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>For a market conduct analysis or market conduct investigation, after receipt of the request specified in §D of this regulation; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>For a market conduct examination, after receipt of the notice specified in Regulation .06G of this chapter.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>If the Commissioner receives the request pursuant to §G of this regulation, the Commissioner shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Grant an extension; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Notify the person that the request to extend the time is denied.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>