J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1049

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 266 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Licenses," subtitle "Home Im-
provement Law," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

266.

Any person who shall accept or receive a completion certificate
or other evidence that performance of a home-improvement contract
is complete or satisfactorily concluded, with knowledge that such
document is false and that the performance is not [substantially]
completed, and who shall utter, offer or use such document in con-
nection with the making or accepting of any assignment or negotia-
tion of the right to receive any payment from the owner, under
or in connection with a home-improvement contract, or for the
purpose of obtaining or granting any credit or loan on the security
of the right to receive any payment, as aforesaid, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $5,000.00
or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or both.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall not apply
to any offense committed prior to June 1, 1965.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 721

(House Bill 587)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 256 (3)
and 265 (a) of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Licenses," subtitle "Home
Improvement Law," to reduce the amount of the contract price
necessary before a license is required by a salesman under the
Home Improvement Law and to delete the pre-payment require-
ment as to contracts between prime contractors and owners of
one, two or three family dwelling places before certain provisions
of the law must be complied with.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 256 (3) and 265 (a) of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume), title "Licenses,"
subtitle "Home Improvement Law," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

256.

(3) Any home improvement, where the aggregate contract price
for all labor, materials and other items is less than [$300.00]
$200.00. This exemption does not apply where the work is only part
of a larger or major operation, whether undertaken by the same or