1102                                    LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 28

CHAPTER 28

(Senate Bill 127)

AN ACT concerning

Private Detectives - Licensing

FOR the purpose of altering the number of years' experience
required of a full-time police officer to qualify for a
private detective's business license. ; requiring
investigative experience as a detective to qualify for
a private detective's license with a lesser period of
experience; and providing that experience with an
organized police department means, among other things,
experience with an agency of the United States which is
a law enforcement agency.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 78(b)(1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

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

Article 56 - Licenses

78.

(b) No license shall be issued to a person under the
age of twenty-five years, nor to any person, firm,
association or corporation unless:

(1) Such person or at least one member of the
firm, and one officer or director of the association or
corporation has had at least (a) five years' experience as a
full-time licensed investigator; or (b) [ten] 5 full years'
experience as a full-time police officer with an organized
police department; or (c) three full years' experience in an
investigative capacity or as a detective while serving as a
police officer with an organized police department. For the
purposes of (b) and (c) of the preceding sentence, "an
organized police department" shall mean an organized police
department of this State, or a county or municipality
thereof, or an A LAW ENFORCEMENT agency of the United States
of America or any state of the United States, or county or
municipality thereof; or

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.