2534                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                                      Ch. 678

(c)  The [Board of County Commissioners of Washington
County] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF EACH COUNTY may:

(1)  License and regulate persons who conduct a
transient or temporary business; and

(2)  Require a license to be obtained before
conducting business within [Washington County] THE COUNTY.

(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] THE COUNTY;

(ii) Payment or deposit is collected in

[Washington County] THE 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 or his agent 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.