1362                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 580

(9) "New" means any article or material which has not been
previously used for any purpose. Manufacturing processes shall
not be considered a prior use.

(10)    "Person" includes individual, copartnership, association,
firm, auctioneer, trust, and corporation, and the agents, servants,
and employees of any of them.

(11)    "Renovator" means a person who repairs, makes over, re-
covers, restores, renovates, or renews bedding.

(12)    "Retailer" means a person who sells any article of bedding
or upholstered furniture to a consumer or user of the article as
purchased from the manufacturer or wholesaler.

(13)    "Second-hand" means any article or material, or portion
thereof, of which prior use has been made. Any article of bedding
or upholstered furniture is second-hand if it contains any second-
hand material in whole or in part.

(14)    "Sell" or any of its variants, includes any of, or any com-
bination of, the following: Sell, offer or expose for sale, barter,
trade, deliver, rent, consign, lease, possess with an intent to sell or
to dispose of in any other commercial manner. The possession of
any article of bedding, upholstered furniture or filling material as
defined herein, by any person, in the course of business, shall be
presumptive evidence of intent to sell.

(15) "SHODDY" MEANS GARNETTED OR SHREDDED
CLIPPINGS WHEN MADE IN WHOLE OR IN PART FROM
SECONDHAND RAGS, CLOTHING FABRICS, OR OTHER
MATERIALS.

(15)    (16) "Supply Dealer" means a person who manufacturers,
processes, or sells at wholesale any felt, batting, pads, or other filling
material, loose, in bags, in bales, or in containers, concealed or not
concealed, to be used or that could be used in articles of bedding
or upholstered furniture.

(16)     (17) "Wholesaler" means a person who on his own account
sells any article of bedding or upholstered furniture to another for the
purpose of resale, but shall not include an affiliate or a subsidiary
corporation where the ownership is identical, and which is the
exclusive sales outlet of a manufacturer.

(17)     (18) "Upholstered Furniture" means any article of furni-
ture stuffed or filled with excelsior, straw, hay, grass, corn husks, tow,
moss, fibre, cotton, wool, hair, jute, feathers, down, kapok, or any
other soft material.

66.

(a)    The Department, through its officers and employees, shall
administer and enforce the provisions of this subtitle. The Depart-
ment shall inspect and supervise the manufacture and sale of all
bedding and upholstered furniture subject to the provisions of this
subtitle and enforce the provisions thereof within thi