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by any qualified attorney who is a regular salaried employee of the Board
and is designated for this purpose upon recommendation of the Attorney-
General.

(b) All criminal actions for violations of any provision of this Arti-
cle, or of any rules or regulations issued pursuant thereto, shall be prose-
curted by the State's Attorneys of the respective counties or of Baltimore
City as the case may be, in which the employer has a place of business or
the violator resides.

Non-Liability of State.

1936 (Dec. Sp. Sess.), ch. 1, sec. 18.

18. Benefits shall be deemed to be due and payable under this Article
only to the extent provided in this Article and to the extent that moneys
are available therefor to the credit of the unemployment compensation
fund, and neither the State nor the Board shall be liable for any amount
in excess of such sums.

Definitions.

1936 (Dec. Sp. Sess.), ch. 1, sec. 19. 1937, chs. 314 and 527. 1937 (Sp. Sess.), ch. 2, sec. 19.
1939, ch. 278, sec. 19 and ch. 565.

19. As used in this Article, unless the context clearly requires other-
wise :

(a) Board of Review. Whenever the term "Board of Review" is used
in this Article it shall mean the Unemployment Compensation Board, as
constituted under Section 10 of this Article.

(b) "Benefits" means the money payments payable to an individual,
as provided in this Article, with respect to his unemployment.

(c) "Board" means the Unemployment Compensation Board, as con-
stituted under Section 10 of this Article.

(d) "Contributions" means the money payments to the State unemploy-
ment compensation fund required by this Article.

(e) "Employing unit" means any individual or type of organization,
including any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company,
insurance company or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the
receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee or successor thereof, or the legal
representative of a deceased person, which has or subsequent to January 1,
1935, had in its employ one or more individuals performing services for
it within this State. All individuals performing services within this State
for any employing unit which maintains two or more separate establish-
ments within the State shall be deemed to be employed by a single employ-
ing unit for all the purposes of this Article. Whenever any employing
unit contracts with or has under it any contractor or sub-contractor for
any employment which is part of its usual trade, occupation, profession,
or business, unless the employing unit as well as each such contractor or
sub-contractor is an employer by reason of Section 19 (f) or Section 8 (c)
of this Article, the employing unit shall for all the purposes of this
Article be deemed to employ each individual in the employ of each such
contractor or sub-contractor for each day during which such individual is
engaged in performing such employment; except that each such contrac-
tor or sub-contractor who is an employer by reason of Section 19 (f) or
Section 8 (c) of this Article shall alone be liable for the contributions
measured by wages payable to individuals in his employ, and except that