WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

the initial members of the Board; providing for the
effective date of this Act; making the provisions of this
Act severable; providing for the construction of this Act;
and generally relating to the licensure and regulation of
certain heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and
refrigeration contractors.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 249(c) and 256

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 56 - Licenses

Section 607 through 637, inclusive, to be
subtitle "Heating, Ventilation, Air
and Refrigeration Contractors"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

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

Article 56 - Licenses                           

249.

(c) "Home improvement" means the repair, replacement,

remodeling, alteration, conversion, modernization, improvement,
or addition to any land or building, or that portion thereof
which is used or designed to be used as a residence or dwelling
place for 1, 2, or 3 single family units; and shall include the
construction, replacement, or improvement of driveways, swimming
pools, porches, garages, landscaping, fences, fall out shelters
and other improvements to structures or upon land which is
adjacent to a dwelling house for 1, 2, or 3, single family units.
"Home improvement" also includes the replacement, installation,
and connection of dishwashers, disposals, and refrigerators with
icemakers to existing exposed household plumbing lines. "Home
improvement" shall not include (i) the construction of a new home
building or work done by a contractor in compliance with a
guarantee of completion of a new building project, (ii) the sale
of goods or materials by a seller who neither arranges to perform
nor performs directly or indirectly any work of labor in
connection with the installation of or application of the goods

or materials, or (iii) any replacement, installation, or

connection of appliances to existing exposed plumbing lines that
requires alteration of the existing lines. Without regard to

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under the new
Conditioning,