LICENSES 2453

(n) Guaranteeing, or having authorized or permitted any person to
guarantee future profits which may result from the resale of real property,
or,

(o) Soliciting, selling, or offering for sale real property by offering
"free lots", or conducting lotteries, or contests, or offering prizes for the
purpose of influencing a purchaser or prospective purchaser of real prop-
erty, or,

(p) Negligence, or failure to disclose or to ascertain and disclose to any
person with whom such licensee is dealing, any material fact, data, or in-
formation, concerning or relating to the property with which such licensee
is dealing, which such licensee knew or should have known, or,

(q) Any act or conduct whether of the same or a different character
than hereinabove specified, which constitutes or demonstrates bad faith,
incompetency or untrustworthiness, or dishonest, fraudulent, or improper
dealings.

(r) Any unlawful act or violation of any of the provisions of this sub-
title by any licensee, shall not be cause for the suspension or revocation
of a license of any employer, employee, salesman, partner, member or
officer, associated with or employed by such licensee, unless it shall appear
to the satisfaction of the Commission that said employer, employee, sales-
man, partner, member or officer had guilty knowledge thereof.

¹ 1939, ch. 351, sec. 298.

356. (Hearings.) The Commission shall, before denying an applica-
tion for license, or before suspending or revoking any license, set the matter
down for a hearing, and at least ten days prior to the date set for the
hearing, it shall notify in writing the applicant, or license-holder of the
charges made, and shall afford said applicant, or license-holder an oppor-
tunity to be heard in person or by counsel in reference thereto. Such writ-
ten notice may be served by delivery of same personally to the applicant, or
license-holder, or by mailing same by registered mail to the last known busi-
ness address of such applicant, or license-holder. If said applicant, or
license-holder, be a salesman, the Commission shall also notify the broker
employing him or in whose employ he is about to enter, by mailing notice
by registered mail to the broker's last known business address. The hear-
ing on such charges shall be at such time and place as the Commission
shall prescribe. Any member of the Commission or its Secretary-Treasurer
shall have power to administer oaths and to subpoena and bring before it
any person in this State, or take testimony of any such person by deposi-
tion with the same fees and mileage in the same manner as prescribed by law
in judicial procedure in Courts of this State in civil cases. Any party to
any hearing before the Commission shall have the right to the attendance
of witnesses in his behalf at such hearing, upon making request therefor
to the Commission and designating the person or persons sought to be
subpoenaed. If the Commission shall determine that any applicant is not
qualified to receive a license, a license shall not be granted to said appli-
cant. And if the Commission shall determine that any license-holder
is guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this sub-title his or its
license may be suspended or revoked. The findings of fact made by the
Commission, acting within its powers, shall in the absence of fraud be
conclusive, but the Superior Court of Baltimore City or the Circuit Court
in any County shall have the power to review questions of law involved in