HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                      1787

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 164

(Senate Bill 282)

AN ACT concerning

Private Detectives - False Statements on
Certain Application Forms

FOR the purpose of providing that any person licensed as a
private detective under State law who is employed as a
detective, security guard, or watchman and who, in
completing the prescribed applications required by law,
willfully makes false statements or reports is guilty of a
misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to certain
penalties; requiring that certain application forms be
notarized; and generally relating to false statements by
private detectives on certain application forms.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 81(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

81.

(a) (1) The holder of any license issued under the
provisions of this subtitle may employ to assist him in his work
and in the conduct of his business as many persons as he may deem
necessary, and he shall at all times during such employment be
accountable for the good conduct in the business of each and
every person so employed.

(2)  Each individual permanent and part-time employee
of a licensee under § 78 of this subtitle, acting as a detective,
shall be registered and pay an application fee of $50.

(3)  (I) Employees serving as detectives, security
guards, or watchmen shall be required to submit NOTARIZED
applications on forms prescribed by the Superintendent and two
sets of fingerprint cards for record checks, which will result in
approval or disapproval.