Ch. 104

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Business

Name of License

Fee

(l) Commission
selling agency

(2) Transfer buyer

(3) Purchaser of
leaf tobacco from
a commission
selling agency

(4) Agent for
sales floor
buyer's license

(5) Seller of leaf
tobacco on ware-
house floor of any
warehouse

Commission selling
agency

Transfer buyer's license

Sales floor buyer's
license

Sales floor buyer's
agent's license

Sales floor seller's
license

$525

$300

$300

$ 15

$300

(b)  Any person who weighs leaf tobacco for a commission
selling agency first shall register With the Authority [and post
a bond in the amount of $500].

(c)  (1) Purchases between a landlord and tenant are not
subject to the requirement for a transfer buyer's license.

(2)  A person who possesses a commission selling
agency license is not required to obtain a sales floor buyer's
license or a sales floor agent's license if he purchases leaf
tobacco on a sales floor.

(3)  A tobacco grower selling tobacco which he has
grown, his agent, or a commission selling agency licensee
operating a tobacco warehouse in the State is not required to
obtain a sales floor seller's license.

(4)  A sales floor buyer's licensee who sells on the
sales floor no more than 25 percent of the tobacco bought by him
in the same warehouse is not required to obtain a sales floor
seller's license.

(d)  The Authority may decrease the fee set for commission
selling agency licenses, transfer buyer's licenses, or sales
floor buyer's licenses.

(e) The Authority may revoke or suspend any license issued
under the provisions of this section, for any violation of a
provision of this subtitle or of any rule or regulation issued
under it. No revocation or suspension may be ordered until the
Authority has given at least ten days' notice of the contemplated
action to the licensee, nor without according to the licensee a

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