# Labor and Employment (GLE)

## Title 9. Workers' Compensation

### Subtitle 2. Covered Employees and Employers

#### Section 9-208

(a) An individual is a covered employee if the individual regularly distributes or sells newspapers:

  (1) on the street; or

  (2) to customers at their homes or places of business.

(b) For the purposes of this title, the employer of an individual who is a covered employee under this section is:

  (1) each independent news agency for which the covered employee sells newspapers; and

  (2) each publisher who engages the covered employee to distribute or sell its newspapers.

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Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Empl. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)