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EMPLOYMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENABLING THE PERSONS TO
SECURE EMPLOYMENT. 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, ballet,
modeling or other entertainments or exhibitions or performances, but such term
does not include the business of managing such entertainments, 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 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.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved May 7, 1973.

CHAPTER 233
(Senate Bill 643)

AN ACT to to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 224(a), 225(a) and
225(c) of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement
Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Licenses," subtitle "Real Estate Brokers,"
to authorize the Real Estate Commission to impose a [[fine]] penalty upon
licensees for violations of certain laws and regulations of the Real Estate
Commission and generally relating to the imposition of such fines.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 224(a), 225(a) and 225(c) of Article 56 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement),
title "Licenses," subtitle "Real Estate Brokers," be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

224.

(a) The Commission may upon its own motion and shall upon the verified
complaint in writing of any person, provided such complaint, or such complaint
together with evidence, documentary or otherwise, presented in connection
therewith, shall make out a prima facie case, cause to be investigated the actions
of any real estate broker or real estate salesman, or any person who shall assume
to act in either such capacity within this State, and shall have the power to suspend
or revoke any license issued under the provisions of this subtitle, OR, IN LIEU
OF OR IN ADDITION TO ANY SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION,
IMPOSE A [[FINE]] PENALTY [[of up to two thousand dollars ($2,000.00)
per violation upon any licensee]] OF UP TO TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS
($2.000.00) PER VIOLATION UPON ANY LICENSEE at any time where the