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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".18" citation="COMAR 09.32.01.18" title_num="09" subtitle_num="32" chapter_num="01" heading="Presumption of Employee.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Employee. A person performing services is presumed to be an employee, regardless of whether a common law master and servant relationship exists, unless specifically exempted under the Unemployment Insurance Law or these regulations.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Independent Contractor.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>To overcome the employee presumption, an employing unit shall establish that the person performing services is an independent contractor.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The Secretary shall determine that an employing unit has established that the person performing services is an independent contractor when the conditions in §B(3)(a)—(c) of this regulation are clearly shown.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Circumstances evidencing the conditions mentioned in §B(2) of this regulation include, but are not limited to, the items listed after each condition:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The person has been and will continue to be free from the employing unit's control or direction:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>The employing unit does not require the person to comply with detailed instructions about when, where, and how the person is to work,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>The employing unit does not train the person to perform the service in a particular manner or using a particular method determined by the employing unit,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>The employing unit does not establish set hours of work for the person performing the services,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>The employing unit does not establish a schedule or routine for the person performing the service,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>The employing unit may not discharge the person for failure to obey the employing unit's specific instructions on how the service is to be performed;</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The service is outside the usual course of business of the employing unit:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>The person performs the work off the employing unit's premises,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>The person performs work that is not integrated into the employing unit's operation,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>The service performed is unrelated to the employing unit's business;</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>The person performing the service is customarily engaged in an independently established business:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Maintains a business listing in the telephone directory,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Has his or her own place of business,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Has a financial investment in a related business and can incur a loss in the performance of the service,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Has his or her own equipment needed to perform the service,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>Determines the price of the service to be performed,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vi)">
          <text>Employs others to perform the service,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vii)">
          <text>Carries his or her own liability or workers' compensation insurance, or both,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(viii)">
          <text>Performs the service for more than one unrelated employer at the same time,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ix)">
          <text>Sets his or her own hours,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(x)">
          <text>Is paid by the job.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>