2416 ARTICLE 56

1935, ch. 296, sec. 232B.

270. All licenses to engage in business as an employment agent in
this State shall be annual licenses, except as hereinafter in this section
provided, and shall be granted by the Commissioner of State Employment
and Registration. No person shall engage in business as an employment
agent in this State until (1) he shall pay to the said Commissioner a
license fee of $25.00 f or a full year or pro rata for less than a full year,
provided, however, that the fee shall not be less than $10.00, (2) and shall
also deposit with the said Commissioner a bond in the penal sum of
$1,000 signed by the applicant for the license as principal and by a
Surety Company authorized to do business in this State as surety, payable
to the State of Maryland as obligee and conditioned on the compliance of
such applicant with the provisions of Sections 268 and 277, inclusive,
and the payment by such applicant of all damages occasioned to any per-
son by reason of any misstatement, misrepresentation, fraud or deceit
forbidden by said sections of such applicant or his agents or employees.
All licenses granted by the said Commissioner shall, irrespective of the
date of issue, expire on the first day of May next thereafter. No license
shall be issued by the said Commissioner unless the applicant for such
license shall have an office within the State at which such applicant car-
ries on, or proposes to carry on, business as an employment agent. The
said Commissioner is hereby authorized to refuse to issue a license to
any applicant whose license has been suspended or revoked as hereinafter
provided, unless and until it shall be shown to the satisfaction of said
Commissioner that the applicant will not be guilty of the offense for which
such prior license was suspended or revoked.

1935, ch. 296, sec. 232C.

271. The Commissioner of State Employment and Registration is
hereby authorized, at any time and from time to time, after a public hear-
ing (notice of which shall be given as hereinafter in this section provided),
to make and publish rules and regulations for the regulation of employ-
ment agents not inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 268 to 277,
inclusive, of this Article, and in like manner to repeal or amend such
regulations from time to time. The Commissioner shall give notice of
any such public hearing at least ten days in advance thereof by mailing a
notice thereof to all licensed employment agencies in the State and in
addition by publishing such notice in two daily newspapers of general
circulation published in Baltimore City. The said Commissioner is hereby
authorized to revoke or to suspend for such period as he shall think proper
the license of any employment agent violating any of the provisions of
Sections 269 to 277, inclusive, or of any rule or regulation made and
published pursuant to the provisions of this section.

1935, ch. 296, sec. 232D.

272. Each and every employment agent shall display in a conspic-
uous place in any office used for the transaction of business as an employ-
ment agent a license therefor signed by the said Commissioner. Each and
every employment agent shall keep in such office books or records showing
separately as to each person referred by such employment agent to any
employer or prospective employer (whether within or without the State)