Section 9-526 - Filing-office rules. - Maryland Statutes

§ 9-526. Filing-office rules.
 

(a)  The Department shall adopt and publish rules to implement this subtitle. The filing-office rules must be: 

(1) Consistent with this subtitle; and 

(2) Adopted and published in accordance with Title 10, Subtitle 1 of the State Government Article. 

(b)  To keep the filing-office rules and practices of the filing office in harmony with the rules and practices of filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially this subtitle, and to keep the technology used by the filing office compatible with the technology used by filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially this subtitle, the Department, so far as is consistent with the purposes, policies, and provisions of this title, in adopting, amending, and repealing filing-office rules, shall: 

(1) Consult with filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially this subtitle; 

(2) Consult the most recent version of the Model Rules promulgated by the International Association of Corporate Administrators or any successor organization; and 

(3) Take into consideration the rules and practices of, and the technology used by, filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially this subtitle. 
 

[1999, ch. 282, § 2.]