BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                           2049

complainant and respondent; and

(ii) The identity of the complainant may be
disclosed to the respondent at any time;

(b) Any member of the Commission or employee thereof,
who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not more than $1,000.00 or imprisoned not more than one year
or both.

[18] 15.

For the purposes of this subtitle:

(a)    The term "person" includes one or more
individuals, labor unions, partnerships, associations,
corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies,
joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations,
trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers;

(b)    The term "employer" means a person engaged in an
industry or business who has fifteen or more employees for
each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in
the current or preceding calendar year; and any agent of
such a person, such term does include the State of Maryland
to the extent as may be provided in this [article] ARTICLE
but such term does not include a bona fide private
membership club (other than a labor organization) which is
exempt from taxation under § 501 (c) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1954.

(c)    The term "employment agency" means any person
regularly undertaking with or without compensation to
procure employees for an employer or to procure for
employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes
an agent or such a person; but shall not include an agency
of the United States or an agency of the State of Maryland
or political subdivision thereof, except such term shall
include the United States Employment Service and the system
of State and local employment services receiving federal
assistance.

(d)    The term "labor organization" means a labor
organization engaged in an industry and any agent of such an
organization, and includes any organization of any kind, any
agency, or employee representation committee, group,
association, or plan so engaged in which employees
participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in
part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor
disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours, or ether terms or
conditions of employment, and any conference, general
committee, joint or system board, or joint council so
engaged which is subordinate to a national or international
labor organization.

(e) The term "employee" means an individual employed