Section 17-1806 - Applications for licenses. - Maryland Statutes

§ 17-1806. Applications for licenses.
 

(a)  Application for place of business.- An applicant for a trader's license shall state in the application the place where the applicant will do business as a trader. 

(b)  Visually handicapped applicants; Blind Industries.-  

(1) This subsection does not apply if the average value of the applicant's stock in trade exceeds $10,000. 

(2) An applicant for a trader's license may apply under this subsection if the applicant has a defect in vision such that: 

(i) visual acuity in the applicant's better eye does not exceed 20/140 with correcting lenses; or 

(ii) the widest diameter of the applicant's visual field subtends an angle not exceeding 20 degrees. 

(3) An applicant for a trader's license under this subsection shall submit to the clerk: 

(i) a signed certificate, from a licensed physician who specializes in treatment of the eye, that the applicant's vision meets the standard of paragraph (2) of this subsection; and 

(ii) an affidavit that the applicant is the owner of the place of business listed in the application. 

(4) Blind Industries also may apply for a trader's license under this subsection for a business that it operates, if Blind Industries submits to the clerk an affidavit that: 

(i) Blind Industries operates the business listed in the application; and 

(ii) the manager of the business has vision that meets the standard of paragraph (2) of this subsection. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 56, §§ 33, 56; 1992, ch. 4, § 2.]