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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 638

260.

(d) If the license is refused, the applicant may, within 10
days from the date a notice of refusal is mailed, request a
hearing. [Said] THE hearing must be held within 30 days from the
date of the request, and the [commissioners] COMMISSION must
render [their] ITS decision within [20] A REASONABLE PERIOD OF
TIME BUT NOT MORE THAN 60 days following the hearing; but,
whenever the license of an applicant has been revoked or denied
after hearing, [he] THE APPLICANT shall not be eligible to apply
for a license for six months following [such] THE revocation or
denial.

261.

(a) The following acts are prohibited:

(1)  Abandonment or failure to perform, without
justification, any home-improvement contract or project engaged
in or undertaken by a contractor; or deviation from or disregard
of plans or specifications in any material respect without the
consent of the owner;

(2)  Failure of a salesman to account for or to remit
to his contractor any payment received in connection with a
home-improvement transaction;

(3)  Making any substantial misrepresentation in the
procurement of a home-improvement contract, or making any false
promise of character likely to influence, persuade or induce;

(4)  Any fraud in the execution of, or in the material
alteration of any contract, mortgage, promissory note or other
document incident to a home-improvement transaction;

(5)  Preparing, arranging, participating in arranging,
or accepting any mortgage, promissory note, or other evidence of
indebtedness upon the obligations of a home-improvement
transaction with knowledge that it recites a greater monetary
obligation than the consideration for the home-improvement work,
which consideration may be a time sale price;

(6)  Directly or indirectly publish any advertisement
relating to home improvements which contains an insertion,
representation or statement of fact which is false, deceptive, or
misleading; provided that any advertisement which is subject to
and complies with the then existing rules, regulations or guides
of the Federal Trade Commission shall not be deemed false,
deceptive or misleading; or by any means advertising or
purporting to offer the general public any home-improvement work
with the intent not to accept contracts for the particular work
or at the price which is advertised or offered to the public;