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information to persons seeking 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]. "Visa service
employment agency" means any individual, partnership,
association, corporation, contractor, or subcontractor
who, for a fee, procures, offers, or attempts to procure
alien labor certifications and immigrant visas for
individuals, and who either directly or indirectly
participate in any manner in the recruitment or supply of
any persons who reside outside of the continental United
States for employment within the continental United
States. The definition of visa service employment agency
does not include attorneys—at—law directly engaging in
the practice of procuring immigrant visas. 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, 1976.

Approved May 4, 1976.

CHAPTER 477
(House Bill 1151)

AN ACT concerning

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