HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                       2385

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

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

Article 56 - Licenses

31A.

(d) This section does not apply to the following:

(1)  Travelers or selling agents, including
auctioneers, in the usual course of business;

(2)   [Bona fide sales] THE MERE SOLICITATION OF ORDERS
FOR THE FUTURE DELIVERY of goods, wares, or merchandise [for
future delivery] in interstate commerce [where none of the
following occurs:

(i) Measurements or design specifications are
made or prepared within Washington County;

(ii) Payment or deposit is collected in
Washington County as a condition for the placement of orders; or

(iii) The collection of a licensing fee is
prohibited by the Constitution and laws of the United States];

(3)  Sales of goods, wares, or merchandise exhibited
on the grounds used by any agricultural society for the purpose
of holding that agricultural society's annual fair;

(4)  Sales by any other nonprofit organization or
society for charitable, religious, or other public purpose;

(5)  Conventions of religious, civic, or charitable
groups or nonprofit trade associations, concerts, cultural
events, art and craft shows, sales, exhibitions, or fairs where
[the products are made in the United States and] the exhibitor is
the sole producer of the products;

(6)  Sales by a farmer of produce grown on the
farmer's own land, from a truck or stand owned or leased by the
farmer;

(7)  Shows, sales, exhibitions, or fairs conducted
within the central pedestrian areas of enclosed shopping malls;
or

(8)  Sales by a seller at a residential premises
pursuant to an invitation by the owner or legal occupant of the
residential premises.