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suitable evidence, the proceeds of the loan shall be
expended in accordance with the provisions of this Act. If
satisfactory evidence of the raising of at least an equal
and matching fund for this project is not presented to the
Board of Public Works on or before June 1, [1980] 1982, the
proceeds of the loan shall be transferred to the Annuity
Bond Fund and applied to the debt service requirements of
the State.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1980.

Approved May 27, 1980.

CHAPTER 783

(House Bill 1305)

AN ACT concerning

Private Detectives - Insurance Adjuster Exception

FOR the purpose of exempting independent insurance adjusters
from requirements of private detective licensing; and
making stylistic changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses
Section 75(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1979 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 56 - Licenses

75.

(a) The term "private detective business" means 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