Ch. 171 1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(2) a principal, associate, agent, employee, or other subordinate of a
corporation [or], partnership, OR LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY that provides land
surveying or property line surveying services.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved April 29, 1997.

CHAPTER 171
(Senate Bill 400)

AN ACT concerning

Secondhand Precious Metal Object Dealers and Pawnbrokers - License and Background

Check

FOR the purpose of requiring applicants for a license to act as a secondhand precious
metal object dealer or pawnbroker or an employee of an applicant or licensee to
apply for a national and State criminal history records check and to pay the fees for
these background records checks; requiring certain preconditions to be satisfied before
an individual may begin work for a certain dealer as an employee; requiring the
Criminal Justice Information System of the Department of Public Safety and
Correctional Services to mail acknowledgements of the receipt of applications for a
criminal history records check and provide updates of an initial criminal history
records check to the Secretary of the Department of Labor, Licensing, and
Regulation; amending the fees for an original license and renewal license; ensuring
that criminal history information obtained and disseminated is subject to certain
provisions of law; and generally relating to criminal history background records
checks for secondhand precious metal object dealers and pawnbrokers and their
employees.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Business Regulation

Section 12-202(a)(1), 12-203, 12-204, and 12-207(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Volume and 1996 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article — Business Regulation

12-202.

(a) (1) An applicant for a license shall:

(i) submit to the Secretary an application on the form that the
Secretary provides; and

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