Ch. 740                            MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 1561

19.

(a) The following existing facilities shall be maintained as public facilities under
the general jurisdiction of the Administration:

[Henryton State Hospital] HENRYTON HOSPITAL CENTER
[Rosewood State Hospital] ROSEWOOD HOSPITAL CENTER

Great Oaks Center (formerly known as the Maryland-Metropolitan Washington
Mental Retardation Center).

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 24, 1973.

CHAPTER 741
(Senate Bill 1132)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 161, 162, 163, 163A,
164 and 169 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972
Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Licenses," subtitle
"Fee-Charging Employment Agencies," to provide generally for the licensing
and regulation of employment counselors and to correct certain obsolete
language.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 161, 162, 163, 163A, 164 and 169 of Article 56 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and 1972
Supplement), title "Licenses," subtitle "Fee-Charging Employment Agencies," be
and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

161.

No person, firm or corporation shall open, operate, or maintain an employment
agency in this State, NOR SHALL ANY PERSON ON OR AFTER JANUARY
1, 1974, ACT IN THE CAPACITY OF AN EMPLOYMENT COUNSELOR
without first obtaining a license for that purpose from the Commissioner of the
[Department] DIVISION of Labor and Industry. Any person, firm or corporation
opening, operating or maintaining an employment agency, AND ANY PERSON
ACTING IN THE CAPACITY OF AN EMPLOYMENT COUNSELOR,
without first obtaining a license for that purpose from the Commissioner of Labor
and Industry shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be subject to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars or to imprisonment not to
exceed one year, or both such fine and imprisonment.

162.

(A) "Employment agency" means any individual, partnership, association,
corporation, contractor or subcontractor who, for a fee, procures or offers or
attempts to procure employees for persons seeking the service of employees, or
employment for persons, seeking employment. Theatrical employment agencies, as
defined following, shall be within the purview of this subtitle. "Theatrical
employment agency" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation,