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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 374

SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section
75(a) of Article 56 — Licenses, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 56 — Licenses

75.

(a) The term "private detective business" shall mean
the business of conducting a private detective agency or
for the purpose of making for hire or reward any
investigation or investigations for the purpose of
obtaining information with reference to any of the
following matters, notwithstanding the fact that other
functions and services may also be performed by the same
person, firm, association or corporation for fee, hire or
reward, to wit: (1) Crime or wrong done or threatened
or assumed to have been done or threatened against the
government of the United States of America, or any state,
territory or possession of the United States of America;
(2) the identity, habits, conduct, movements,
whereabouts, affiliations, associations, transactions,
reputation or character of any person, association,
organization, society or groups of persons, firms or
corporations; (3) the credibility of witnesses or other
persons; (4) the whereabouts of missing persons; (5) the
location or recovery of lost or stolen property; (6) the
causes and origin of, or responsibility for, fires,
accidents, damage, injuries or losses to persons, firms,
associations or corporations, or to real or personal
property; (7) the affiliation, connection or relation of
any person, firm or corporation with any official member
or representative thereof; (8) with reference to the
conduct, honesty, efficiency, loyalty or activities of
employees, agents, contractors and subcontractors; (9)
the securing of evidence to be used before any
investigating committee, board of award, board of
arbitration, or in the trial of any civil or criminal
cause; provided, however, that the term shall not include
a person, firm, association or corporation engaged
exclusively in the business of making investigations and
reports as to the financial standing, credit and
financial responsibility of persons, firms, associations
or corporations nor to electrically controlled burglar or
fire alarm systems with a central unit, nor to any
person, firm, association or corporation exclusively
engaged in the business of making reports for insurance
or credit purposes except when the making of such reports
involves investigation or surveillance normally performed
by persons, firms, associations or corporations otherwise