(1998 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and. reenacting, with amendments, 
Article - Business Regulation

Section 8-101(g) 

Annotated Code of Maryland 

(1998 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Natural Resources

8-1001.

(g) "Shore erosion control project" means a competently designed work project,
which may include but is not limited to erection or placement of bulkheads, groins, or
other erosion control devices, and measures required to stabilize waterside,
shorelines, and banks, and to change drainage patterns, all in order to halt or retard
erosion of shorelines and deposit of eroded sediments in the waters of the State.

Article - Business Regulation

8-101.  

(a) In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Commission" means the Maryland Home Improvement Commission.

(c) "Contractor" means a person, other than an employee of an owner, who
performs or offers or agrees to perform a home improvement for an owner.

(d) "Contractor license" means a license issued by the Commission to act as a

contractor.

(g) (1) "Home improvement" means:

(i) the addition to or alteration, conversion, improvement,
modernization, remodeling, repair, or replacement of a building or part of a building
that is used or designed to be used as a residence or a structure adjacent to that
building; or

(ii) an improvement to land adjacent to the building.
(2) "Home improvement" includes:

(i) construction, improvement, or replacement, on land adjacent to
the building, of a driveway, fall-out shelter, fence, garage, landscaping, porch, or
swimming pool;

(ii) connection, installation, or replacement, in the building or
structure, of a dishwasher, disposal, or refrigerator with an icemaker to existing
exposed household plumbing lines;