J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor 461

Supplement), title "Licenses", to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 244 thereof and to be under the new sub-title "Home Im-
provement Law"; providing generally for the regulation of the
home improvement business of all persons in this State, estab-
lishing a system of licensing certain contractors and salesmen
under a new administrative agency to be known as the Maryland
Home Improvement Commission; providing generally for the
creation, powers, personnel, duties, compensation, qualifications
and tenure of the Commission and of its several members;
regulating the issuance, refusal, revocation and suspension of
licenses for the home improvement business; RELATING TO THE
CONSTRUCTION OF FALLOUT SHELTERS; providing for the
enforcement of this Act and for the penalties applicable there-
under?; PROVIDING CRIMINAL PENALTIES REGARDING
HOME IMPROVEMENT TRANSACTIONS; and relating gen-
erally to the business of home improvements and to the powers,
duties and personnel of the Maryland Home Improvement Com-
mission, AND MATTERS INCIDENT THERETO.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
that new Sections 245 to 271 269, inclusive, be and they are hereby
added to Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition and 1961 Supplement), title "Licenses", to follow immedi-
ately after Section 244 thereof, to be under the new sub-title "Home
Improvement Law", and to read as follows:

Home Improvement Law

245. Scope of Subtitle; Citation

This subtitle constitutes and may be cited as the Maryland Home
Improvement Law.

246. Compliance Required

No person may engage in or transact any home improvement
business, or hold himself out to the public as doing home improve-
ment business, or offer to transact any home improvement business,
in this State, except in compliance with the applicable provisions
of this subtitle. No person, whether subject to licensing by any
law or otherwise, may engage in this State in any trade practice
or other act which is prohibited by any provision of this subtitle;
and every person who wilfully participates in a prohibited act or
violation with knowledge of the same is subject to the criminal
penalty therefor. The provisions of this subtitle may not be waived
by agreement.

247. Local Regulations Restricted; Pre-emption; CRAFT LI-
CENSES; PUBLIC OFFICIALS.

(a) No county or city of this State may require that any person
obtain an authorization or license to transact home improvement
business in such county or city.

(b) A license issued pursuant to this subtitle may not be con-
strued to authorize the licensee to perform any particular type of
work or kind of business which is reserved to qualified licensees