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MARVIN MANDEL,
Governor
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CHAPTER 270
(Senate Bill 211)
AN ACT concerning
Private Employment Agencies — Licensing
FOR the purpose of providing that character references
are not needed by persons renewing an employment
agency license.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 56 — Licenses
Section 163(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1972 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 163(a) of Article 56 — Licenses,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement
Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed
and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:
Article 56 — Licenses
163.
(a) All licenses to open, operate or maintain an
employment agency in this State shall be annual licenses,
and irrespective of the date of issue shall expire on the
first day of May next thereafter. No employment agency
shall engage in business in this State until (1) an
annual license fee of $200.00 for a first agency and an
annual license fee of $100.00 for each additional agency
to be operated in this State is paid to the Commissioner
of Labor and Industry by the person, firm or corporation
engaging in such business, and (2) shall also deposit
with the said Commissioner a bond in the penal sum of
$5,000 for each agency to be operated in this State
signed by the applicant for the license as principal and
by a surety company authorized to do business in this
State as surety, payable to the State of Maryland as
obligee and conditioned on the compliance of such
applicant with the provisions of this subtitle, and the
payment by such applicant of all damages occasioned to
any person by reason of any misstatement,
misrepresentation, fraud or deceit forbidden by said
subtitle of such applicant or his agents or employees.
Every applicant for a license shall file with the
Commissioner of Labor and Industry a completed
application on a form prescribed and furnished by the
Commissioner. Such application shall be signed by the
applicant and sworn to before anyone qualified by law to
administer oaths. If the applicant is a corporation the
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