HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1785

CHAPTER 163

(Senate Bill 280)

AN ACT concerning

Private Detective Businesses - Insurance

FOR the purpose of requiring certain private detective businesses
and certain agencies furnishing security guards, watchmen,
or private patrolmen to maintain insurance in certain
amounts; providing for the denial or revocation of certain
licenses on termination of certain insurances; and generally
relating to the insurance requirements for certain private
detective businesses.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 78(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 56 - Licenses

78.

(a) (1) The Superintendent, when satisfied from the
examination of any application and such further inquiry and
investigations as he shall deem proper as to the good character,
competency and integrity of the applicant and the persons named
in the application, shall issue and deliver to the applicant a
license to conduct such business, and to own, conduct or maintain
one or more bureaus, agencies, subagencies, offices or branch
offices for the conduct of such business at the location stated
in said application, together with as many copies of said license
as there are to be offices, bureaus, agencies, subagencies,
offices or branch offices, upon the payment by the applicant to
the Superintendent of a license fee which in the case of an
individual shall be four hundred dollars ($400.00), and in the
case of a firm, association or corporation shall be seven hundred
fifty dollars ($750.00) and upon the applicant executing and
delivering to the Superintendent a bond to the State and which
shall be for the benefit of any person injured by wilful,
malicious or wrongful act of the applicant, with one or more
sufficient sureties, which in the case of an individual shall be
three thousand dollars ($3,000.00), and in the case of a firm,
association or corporation five thousand dollars ($5,000.00),
which said bond shall be conditioned for the faithful and honest