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Ch. 522
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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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providing for the powers, rights, and duties of the Director of the Unit; requiring
the Director to adopt certain regulations; requiring the Director Division,
together with certain persons to create a certain consumer information
pamphlet; establishing a Home Builder Registration Fund and describing its
qualities; specifying the means and manner of acquisition and disbursement of
the assets of the Registration Fund; requiring certain audits of the Registration
Fund; prohibiting a person from acting as, offering to act as, holding oneself out
to be, or impersonating a home builder in the State without certain registration
under certain circumstances; requiring a person to meet certain requirements to
be registered under this Act; establishing application and renewal processes and
requirements to become or remain registered under this Act; requiring the
Director Unit to register or renew the registration of an applicant or registrant
under certain circumstances; providing for certain qualities, powers, and
restrictions of a registration under this Act; providing for the expiration, denial,
suspension, or revocation of a registration under certain circumstances;
requiring the Director Division to provide a registrant with certain notice and
opportunities for hearings under certain circumstances; requiring a registrant
to provide certain information to the Director Unit under certain circumstances;
requiring a registrant to display its home builder registration number under
certain circumstances; authorizing an owner to file a complaint with the
Director under certain circumstances; requiring the Director to handle
complaints in a specified manner establishing a Home Builder Guaranty Fund;
requiring the Director to administer the Guaranty Fund in a certain manner;
specifying the means and manner of acquisition and disbursement of the assets
of the Guaranty Fund; authorizing certain persons to submit a claim against the
Guaranty Fund under certain circumstances; establishing the process and
requirements of obtaining an award from the Guaranty Fund; requiring the
Director to handle and adjudicate claims against the Guaranty.....Fund in a
specified manner; establishing who bears the burden of proof in certain
hearings; providing that the Director is subrogated to the rights of a claimant
and is entitled to a judgment against a registrant under certain circumstances;
providing for the reimbursement of the Guaranty Fund by a registrant under
certain circumstances; authorizing the Director to refer certain debts to the
Central Collection Unit under certain circumstances; establishing that the
Director may be a creditor of a registrant in certain circumstances; providing
that a lien in favor of the State may be created against a registrant under
certain circumstances; prohibiting certain county offices from issuing certain
permits under certain circumstances; providing that any remedies are in
addition to any remedies available under the Consumer Protection Act or any
other laws; requiring a county to notify the Director Unit of certain acts or
omissions of a registrant under certain circumstances; requiring certain
information to be included in a purchase contract for a new home; providing that
certain installers are responsible for certain defects; requiring a registrant to
comply with certain construction standards under certain circumstances;
providing that a contract for the purchase of a new home is not enforceable
under certain circumstances; establishing certain criminal and civil penalties
for violations of certain provisions of this Act; requiring all contracts for the
initial sale of improved, new residential real property to include certain
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