HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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AN ACT concerning

Professional Recruitment Consultants
Fee Charging Employment Agency - Licenses

FOR the purpose of exempting certain firms from the
definition of "employment agency"; and removing those
firms no longer defined as employment agencies from the
jurisdiction of the fee-charging employment agency law.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 162(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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

162.

(a) "Employment agency" means, IN THIS SUBTITLE, any
individual, partnership, association, corporation,
contractor or subcontractor who, for a fee, procures or
offers or attempts to procure employees for persons seeking
the service of employees, or employment for persons, seeking
employment, or engages in the business of furnishing
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. "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