{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-business-regulation-9a-403","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Business Regulation § 9A–403","heading":"","body":"(a) Each individual whom the State, a county, or a local government appoints or employs as a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration inspector shall:\n(1) each year attend a continuing education course that the Board or, with the approval of the Board, a county or local government conducts; and\n(2) meet minimum standards that are:\n(i) established by the Board; and\n(ii) administered:\n1. for a county or local government inspector, by the county or local government that appoints or employs the inspectors; and\n2. for a State inspector by the State.\n(b) An individual may not have any financial interest in any business that provides heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, or refrigeration services while employed by the State, a county, or any local government as a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration inspector.\n(c) (1) On appointment or employment, the individual shall place any license that the inspector holds on inactive status subject to § 9A-309 of this title.\n(2) The Board may issue a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration inspector identification card to an inspector who has placed the appropriate licensee on inactive status.\n(3) On termination of the appointment or employment of an individual as a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration inspector, the Board shall reactivate the license of the individual who is on inactive status, without examination, if the individual:\n(i) makes a written request to the Board; and\n(ii) pays to the Board a reactivation fee established by the Board.","path":["Article - Business Regulation"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gbr\u0026section=9A-403","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:56:23Z","sha256":"370a02cd6f9290094c55c4c4e9128cc82d9b831a86fd735dccf060d0afaa1a93","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-business-regulation-9a-402","next":"us-md/md.-code-business-regulation-9a-404"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}