MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        1075

employment. Theatrical employment agencies, as defined following,
shall be within the purview of this Act. SUBTITLE. "Theatrical
employment agency" means any individual, partnership, association,
corporation, contractor or subcontractor who procures or attempts to
procure employment or engagements for circus, vaudeville, the vari-
ety field, the legitimate theater, motion pictures, radio, television,
phonograph recordings, transcriptions, opera, concert, ballet, mod-
eling or other entertainments or exhibitions or performances, but
such term does not include the business of managing such enter-
tainments, exhibitions or performances, or the artists or attractions
constituting the same, where such business only incidentally involves
the seeking of employment therefor. Bona fide educational, religious,
charitable, fraternal, and benevolent organizations in which no fee,
commission, or other charge is made for services rendered other than
the ordinary membership dues, bona fide labor organizations under-
taking to secure or securing work for their own members, and bona
fide employers' organizations undertaking to secure or securing help
for their own members are not subject to this Act. SUBTITLE.
"EMPLOYMENT AGENCY" SHALL NOT INCLUDE ANY PER-
SON CONDUCTING A BUSINESS WHICH CONSISTS OF EM-
PLOYING INDIVIDUALS DIRECTLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF
FURNISHING PART TIME OR TEMPORARY HELP TO
OTHERS.

163.

All licenses to open, operate or maintain an employment agency
in this State shall be annual licenses, and irrespective of the date of
issue shall expire on the first day of May next thereafter. No em-
ployment agency shall engage in business in this State until (1) an
annual license fee of $200.00 for a first agency and an annual license
fee of $100.00 for each additional agency to be operated in this
State is paid to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry by the
person, firm or corporation engaging in such business, and (2) shall
also deposit with the said Commissioner a bond in the penal sum
of $5,000 for each agency to be operated in this State signed by the
applicant for the license as principal and by a surety company
authorized to do business in this State as surety, payable to the State
of Maryland as obligee and conditioned on the compliance of such
applicant with the provisions of this subtitle, and the payment by
such applicant of all damages occasioned to any person by reason
of any misstatement, misrepresentation, fraud or deceit forbidden
by said subtitle of such applicant or his agents or employees. Every
applicant for a license shall file with the Commissioner of Labor
and Industry a completed application on a form prescribed and
furnished by the Commissioner. Such application shall be signed
by the applicant and sworn to before anyone qualified by law to
administer oaths. If the applicant is a corporation the application
shall state the names and home addresses of all the officers and
directors of