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(i) is based on a claim that does not exceed
[$1,000] $2,500; and

(ii) is not based on an assignment, to the
corporation, of the claim of another.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall

take effect July 1, 1989.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
be construed only prospectively and may not be applied or
interpreted to have any effect upon or application to any
officer of a corporation appearing prior to July 1, 1989 in the
District Court on behalf of a corporation in a civil suit.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections 1 and 3
of this Act shall take effect July 1, 1989.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 2 of
this Act shall take effect October 1, 1989, contingent on the

taking effect of Chapter ____ of the Acts of the General Assembly

of 1989 (S.B. 1), and if Chapter ___ does not become effective,

this Act shall be null and void without the necessity of further
action by the General Assembly.

Approved May 25, 1989.

CHAPTER 632

(Senate Bill 520)

AN ACT concerning

Business Occupations and Professions

FOR the purpose of altering substantively numerous provisions
related to business occupations and professions regulated in
this State and to the licensing units that regulate those
occupations and professions, including: in connection with
the practice of architecture, restricting the right to
design, build, alter, or repair a structure without a
licensed architect, making denial or revocation of a license
for certain conduct mandatory, authorizing civil penalties,
providing criminal penalties for unauthorized operation of a
business through which architecture is practiced and
misrepresentation about authority to operate such a

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