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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 7-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="7-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">The following terms have the meanings indicated unless their context clearly indicates otherwise.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Employment agency.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Employment agency” means any sole proprietorship, partnership, association, corporation, contractor, or subcontractor who, for a fee, paid by either the prospective employer, employee, or both:<para num="(i)">procures or offers or attempts to procure employees for persons seeking the service of employees;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">procures or offers or attempts to procure employment for persons, seeking employment; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">engages in the business of furnishing information to persons seeking employment for the purpose of enabling the persons to secure employment.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">“Employment agency” includes:<para num="(i)">any person conducting a business which consists of employing individuals directly for the purpose of furnishing part-time or temporary help to others; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">any person, partnership, or corporation:<para num="(A)">whose fee is paid 100% by the employer, and</para>
          <para num="(B)">that does not collect any money from an applicant.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Exclusions.">“Employment agency” does not include:<para num="(i)">bona fide educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, or benevolent organizations in which no fee, commission, or other charge is made for services rendered other than the ordinary membership dues;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">bona fide labor organizations undertaking to secure or securing work for their own members;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">bona fide employers’ organizations undertaking to secure or securing help for their own members; or</para>
        <para num="(iv)">any person who merely conducts a business that:<para num="(A)">receives a fee that is paid wholly by an employer;</para>
          <para num="(B)">does not collect money from an individual seeking employment; and</para>
          <para num="(C)">does not require an individual seeking employment to make a contract.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" />
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 15, §51(b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 90-506</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 94-382</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">For the Code-wide standard definition of “person”, see &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;City General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;, &lt;cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107"&gt;§ 1-107&lt;/cite&gt;.</annotation>
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</baltimore-city-law>
