Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1099

AGENCIES," TO PROHIBIT THE SOLICITATION OF AP-
PLICANTS IN THE EMPLOY OF EMPLOYERS WITH WHOM
AN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY HAD PLACED, UNLESS THE
APPLICANT INITIATES THE REACTIVATION OF HIS
APPLICATION.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 162 SECTION 167(I) of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1969 Supplement), title "Licenses," subtitle "Fee
—Charging Employment Agencies," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

162.

"Employment agency" means any individual, partnership, asso-
ciation, corporation, contractor or subcontractor who, for a fee, pro-
cures or offers or attempts to procure employees for persons, seeking
the service of employees, or employment for persons, seeking em-
ployment. Any individual, partnership, association, corporation,
contractor or subcontractor who accepts and receives compensation
from employers only shall not be included within the term "Employ-

ment Agency" as that term is defined and used within subtitle.

Theatrical employment agencies, as defined following, shall be within
the purview of this 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 variety field, the legitimate
theater, motion pictures, radio, television, phonograph recordings,
transcriptions, opera, concert, ballot, modeling or other entertain
ments or exhibitions or performances, but such term does not include
the business of managing such entertainments, exhibitions or per-
formances, 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 mem-
bership dues, bona fide labor organizations undertaking 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 subtitle. "Employment agency"
shall not include any person conducting a business which consists of
employing individuals directly for the purpose of furnishing part-
time or temporary help to others.

167.

[(I) INDUCE OR ATTEMPT TO INDUCE ANY EMPLOYEE
TO TERMINATE HIS EMPLOYMENT IN ORDER TO OBTAIN
OTHER EMPLOYMENT THROUGH SUCH AGENCY; OR PRO-
CURE OR ATTEMPT TO PROCURE THE DISCHARGE OF ANY
PERSON FROM HIS EMPLOYMENT, OR]

(I) SOLICIT FOR OTHER POSITIONS ANY APPLICANT
WHO IS IN THE EMPLOY OF THE EMPLOYER WITH WHOM
THE APPLICANT HAS BEEN PLACED BY THE EMPLOY-
MENT AGENCY, UNLESS THE APPLICANT INITIATES THE
REACTIVATION OF HIS APPLICATION, OR