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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="17-1803" title_number="17" title_name="Miscellaneous State Business Licenses" subtitle_number="18" subtitle_name="Traders">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle or §§ 10–14A–03 and 10–14B–03 of the State Government Article, a person must have a trader’s license whenever the person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>does business as a trader in the State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>does business as an exhibitor in the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A separate trader’s license is required for each store or place of business that a person operates in the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A separate trader’s license is required for each mobile place of business that operates exclusively in one fixed location in the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each mobile place of business that operates in more than one location in the State requires a trader’s license and a peddler’s license issued under Subtitle 9 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>This section does not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a grower, maker, or manufacturer of goods;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a nonresident traveling salesperson, sample merchant, or representative of a foreign mercantile or manufacturing business while selling to or soliciting an order from a licensed trader in the State;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a private individual while publicly selling the individual’s personal effects on the individual’s property, if the individual holds only 1 sale not exceeding 14 consecutive days in a calendar year; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a restaurant licensed under Subtitle 16 of this title that generates 10% or less of its annual sales from nonfood items.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An exhibitor need not get a trader’s license for a show if the show is promoted by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a church, as defined in § 5–301(b) of the Corporations and Associations Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a governmental unit;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>an amateur radio organization;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>an antique vehicle, machine, and equipment organization;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>a volunteer fire department or rescue squad; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>a model train collectors’ association.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An exhibitor need not get a trader’s license for a show if the exhibitor gives to the promoter an exhibitor’s affidavit stating that the exhibitor:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>receives less than 10% of the exhibitor’s annual income from selling the kind of goods that the exhibitor will display and sell at the show; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has not participated in more than three shows, not including participation in one show sponsored by a national organization that is exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, during the previous 365 days.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An exhibitor at an antique show, coin show, or collector show need not get a trader’s license for the show if the exhibitor gives to the promoter an exhibitor’s affidavit stating that the exhibitor:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>will display and sell at the show;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>receives less than 10% of the exhibitor’s annual income in the State from selling the kind of goods that the exhibitor will display and sell at the show; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>has not participated in more than three antique shows, coin shows, or collector shows in the State during the previous 365 days.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>An exhibitor who has a trader’s license need not get an additional trader’s license for a show if, before the show, the exhibitor gives the promoter a photocopy of the trader’s license.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
