§ 38A-1. Definitions.
§ 38A-2. Certificate of registration-Required.
§ 38A-3. Same-Filing; fee; requirements for certain applicants; maintenance of register.
§ 38A-4. Same-Issuance.
§ 38A-5. Same-Term; renewal.
§ 38A-6. Same-Display; duplicates.
§ 38A-7. Renewal refusal; revocation or suspension of license; civil fines.
§ 38A-8. Records; estimates; returned parts; posting of notices.
§ 38A-9. Complaints; investigations.
§ 38A-10. Procedure for revocation; hearing; appeals.
§ 38A-11. Adoption of regulations.
§ 38A-12. Reserved.
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In this Chapter, the following words and phrases have the following meanings:
Director: The Director of the Office of Consumer Protection.
Electrical appliances: The following equipment used or intended for use in the home: Air conditioners, dishwashers, dryers, freezers, furnaces, garbage, disposals, ranges, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and washing machines.
Office: The Office of Consumer Protection.
Radio and television equipment: Any device or instrument used or intended for personal use by the consumer for the transmission, reception or amplification of sounds, pictures or images by means of electrical impulses, including radios, televisions, amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, phonographs, tape recorders and tape players and any component part thereof. (1975 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1; 1980 L.M.C., ch. 35, § 1; 1996 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 1.)
Sec. 2. Regulations. A regulation which implements a function transferred to the Office of Consumer Protection by this Act continues in effect until otherwise amended or repealed, but any reference to any predecessor department or office must be treated as referring to the Office of Consumer Protection.
Sec. 3. Transition. This act does not invalidate or affect any action taken by the Department of Housing and Community Affairs before this Act took effect. Any responsibility or right granted by law, regulation, contract, or other document, and which is associated with a function transferred by this Act from the Department of Housing and Community Affairs, is transferred to the Office of Consumer Protection.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in the business, occupation, profession or trade of installing, repairing or maintaining radio and television equipment and electrical appliances unless such person, firm or corporation shall have first registered with the county.
This provision shall not be construed to apply to any person employed by a registrant who installs, repairs or maintains radio and television equipment and electrical appliances under the supervision of a registrant; nor shall it be construed to apply to employees of any government entity or of any public utility or other corporation subject to regulation by the state public service commission or the Federal Communications Commission who are engaged in the repair and servicing of radio and television equipment and electrical appliances owned or operated by such public utility or other corporation.
(b) Any person, firm or corporation who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to punishment for a class A violation as set forth in section 1-19 of chapter 1 of the County Code. Each day a violation continues to exist shall constitute a separate offense.
(c) Nothing herein contained is intended to affect, nor shall it be construed in any way to affect any of the licensing requirements of chapter 17 of this Code. (1975 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1; 1983 L.M.C., ch. 22, § 45.)
(a) Any person, firm or corporation desiring to be engaged in business to install, repair and maintain radio and television equipment and electrical appliances shall register on a form provided by the county. Each registration filed with the county shall be accompanied by a registration fee in an amount established by the county executive by written regulation. Registration fees shall be adjustable and shall be uniformly based on the size of the individual registrant's business establishment.
(b) No person, firm or corporation whose license or certificate of registration to engage in the business of installing, repairing or maintaining radio and television equipment and electrical appliances has been revoked in any other jurisdiction may be registered hereunder until satisfactory proof has been presented to the director that the circumstances which caused such revocation no longer exist or have no substantial bearing on the issuance of a certificate of registration in the county.
(c) The director shall maintain a register of all registrants. (1975 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1; 1980 L.M.C., ch. 35, § 1.)
The director must issue a certificate of registration to each applicant qualified under section 38A-3 if the applicant pays the registration fee established by executive regulation under method (3). (1975 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1; 1980 L.M.C., ch. 35, § 1; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 41; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 27, § 25; 1989 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 1.)
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