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himself out as a private detective in the City of Baltimore without first
having obtained license so to do.

1910, ch. 694.

660B. That every person intending to engage in the business of private
detective, whether for himself or as a member of or as an employee of
any detective agency, firm or corporation in the City of Baltimore, shall
present to the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City a written applica-
tion, duly signed and sworn to by such applicant. The Commissioner,
when satisfied from an examination of such applicant, and such further
inquiry and investigation as he shall deem proper of the good character,
competency and integrity of such applicant, shall issue and deliver to
such applicant a license to engage in the business of private detective,
upon the applicant paying to the said Commissioner the license fee or
charge as hereinafter provided. The license granted pursuant to this Act
shall expire at midnight of December thirty-first in each and every year,
but may be revoked at any time by the said Commissioner; the fee or
charge for the license so granted as aforesaid shall be twelve dollars for
the entire twelve months, and if the license is issued in any month after
January one-twelfth shall be deducted from the charge above stated for
each expired month, but not fraction of a month; the license fee or charge
herein prescribed and paid shall be by the said Commissioner applied to
the use and benefit of the fund in his charge, created by law and known
and accounted for as the Special Fund.

1910, ch. 694.

660C. That the person so licensed as aforesaid, when engaged in the
business of detective, shall have and exhibit when called upon to do so,
the license certificate prescribed and issued by the said Commissioner,
which certificate shall be returned to the said Commissioner on the expira-
tion of the license or upon the demand of said Commissioner.

1910, ch. 694.

660D. That any person who shall, without the license and certificate
hereinbefore designated, engage in the general business of a private detec-
tive, whether for himself or as a member of or as an employee of any
detective agency, firm or corporation in Baltimore City, or advertise or
hold himself ont as a private detective in the said city, or who shall violate
any of the provisions of Sections 660A, 660B and 660C of this Article,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned
in the Baltimore City Jail for not more than six months, or by both fine
and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court or Justice of the Peace
trying the same; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall apply
to any detective, officer or police or policeman in the regular police force
of Baltimore City, nor to any employee of any corporation not chiefly
engaged in the private detective business but which corporation employs
detectives as an incident to its business.
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