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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 176
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CHAPTER 176
(Senate Bill 595)
AN ACT concerning
Home Improvement Contractors - Required General Liability Insurance
FOR the purpose of requiring explicitly that licensed home improvement contractors
maintain general liability insurance in a certain amount; requiring an insurer to
notify the Home Improvement Commission of the cancellation insurer's intent to
cancel for any reason of the required insurance policy; prohibiting a contractor
from acting as a contractor or performing home-improvement work as of the
date of cancellation of the required insurance; requiring the Commission to
revoke the license of a contractor who fails to maintain the required insurance,
subject to certain hearing provisions; authorizing the Commission to award
from the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund certain damages and other fees
and costs under certain circumstances; making stylistic changes requiring a
licensed contractor that intends to cancel or not renew the required insurance
policy to notify the Home Improvement Commission of the cancellation of certain
required insurance at a certain time; and generally relating to required general
liability insurance for home improvement contractors.
BY repealing and reenacting, without with amendments,
Article - Business Regulation
Section 8-302.1, 8-303(a)(1), and 8-306(e)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article—Business Regulation
Section 8-307.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with without amendments,
Article - Business Regulation
Section 8-303(a)(1), 8-306(e), and 8-308(d)(1) and (f)(2), 8-311, and 8-405
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Business Regulation
Section 8-308(g)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
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