1418                             Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 808

AND UNDER THE NEW SUB-TITLE "HOME IMPROVEMENT
BUSINESS", to read as follows:

795A.

a.   The Board of County Commissioners for Prince George's
County are hereby authorized to require the licensing of persons
engaged in the home improvement business, whether as principal,
agent, salesman, employee, or otherwise and to require the furnish-
ing of bond as a condition to the issuance of such license. For the
purposes of this Act, the term "home improvement business" means
the repair, remodeling, alteration, conversion, or modernization of,
or addition to residential property, all as may be more particularly
defined in regulations promulgated by the Board of County Com-
missioners. Such bonding may be required notwithstanding the
fact that a person may also be subject to the bonding requirements
of any other law.

b.   The Board of County Commissioners shall, by proper ordi-
nance or resolution, adopt all necessary rules and regulations to
carry out the purposes of this Act. The said Board may, from time
to time, and in its discretion, establish classes and subclasses of
persons licensed to engage in the home improvement business and
specify the amount and conditions of the bond or other security
acceptable to the Board to be deposited by each of the members of
any such class or subclass; AND THE BOARD MAY PROVIDE BY
RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE CONDITIONS OR TERMS FOR
WAIVER OF ANY REQUIREMENT FOR A BOND. In connection
with the licensing of persons to engage in the home improvement
business and the bonding of the members of any such class or sub-
class of such persons the Board, in its discretion may by regulation
require applicants for license or licenses. :

(1)   To furnish and keep in force a bond or bonds running to
the Board of County Commissioners for Prince George's County,
or other security acceptable to the Board to protect members of the
public against financial loss by reason of the failure of the licensee
or of any officer, agent, employee, salesman, or other person acting
on behalf of said licensee, to observe any law or regulation in force
in Prince George's County, Maryland applicable to the licensee's
conduct of the licensed business;

(2)    To procure and keep in force public liability insurance or
property damage insurance, or both; and

(3)    To appoint the Board of County Commissioners of Prince
George's County as their true and lawful attorney upon whom all
judicial and other process or legal notice directed to such person

may be served.

c. The bonds authorized by this section shall be corporate surety
bonds in amounts to be fixed by the Board of County Commissioners,
but no bond shall exceed $25,000, and such bond shall be conditioned
upon the observance by the licensee and any officer, agent, employee,
salesman, or other person acting on behalf of said licensee, of all
laws and regulations in force in Prince George's County applicable
to the licensee's conduct of the licensed business, for the benefit of
any person who may suffer damages resulting from the violation of
any such law or regulation by or on the part of such licensee or any