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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 36.09.04.01" title_num="36" subtitle_num="09" chapter_num="04" heading="Financial Account Protections.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An operator shall hold a fantasy competition player’s funds:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>In a segregated account that separates player funds from the operator’s operational funds; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>In a special-purpose, segregated account that is maintained and controlled by a properly constituted corporate entity that:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Is not the fantasy competition operator;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Has a governing board that includes one or more corporate directors who are independent of the operator and of any corporation related to or controlled by the operator;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Requires a unanimous vote of all corporate directors to file for bankruptcy;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Has articles of incorporation that prohibit commingling of fantasy competition player funds with those of the operator, except as necessary to reconcile the accounts of fantasy competition players with sums owed to the operator by those fantasy competition players;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Is restricted from incurring debt other than to fantasy competition players pursuant to the operator’s rules governing the accounts of its fantasy competition players;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Is restricted from taking on obligations of the operator other than obligations to its fantasy competition players pursuant to the operator’s rules governing the accounts of its fantasy competition players; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Other than a special purpose corporate entity established by another operator that meets the requirements of this subtitle, may not dissolve, merge, or consolidate with another company while there are unsatisfied obligations to fantasy competition players.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>An operator shall comply with all applicable State and federal requirements for data security.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>