MARYLAND HOME IMPROVEMENT COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED
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✔✔Workers Comp requirements? - ✔✔An employer who has one or more employees
must carry workers comp insurance
✔✔Unemployment requirements? - ✔✔Program that provides unemployment benefits
top eligible workers who become unemployed through no fault of their own.
✔✔Required postings by law - ✔✔See page 3-11
✔✔Basics to include in Company handbook - ✔✔- Company history
- Compensation guidelines (introductory period, full time requirements etc)
- Payroll distribution dates and times
- Benefits
- Normal working hours
- Overtime pay
- Vacation time
- Sick days
- Policy on sexual harassment
- Policy on use of illegal drugs
- Non discrimination policy
- Rules of conduct (disciplinary action for insubordination, fighting, etc)
- Safety policies
- Equipment and tool policies
- Disciplinary actions procedures
✔✔Ways to motivate employees - ✔✔- provide formal and informal opportunities for
employees to learn new skills
- Empower employees to make decisions and give positive and constructive feedback
- provide clear expectations for your employees
- Conduct performance reviews on a regular basis
- Mentor your employees and tell them about advancement opportunities
- Recognize and reward good work
✔✔What does Workers Compensation provide? - ✔✔monetary compensation to
employees who are injured or disabled on the job
✔✔What does At Will Employee mean? - ✔✔The employer or the employee may
terminate employment at any time without notice or cause.
An employer may not terminate employment due to discriminatory reasons, for taking
time off to serve on a jury, for reporting health or safety violations
, ✔✔What is a lien - ✔✔Mechanic's or materialmen's lien "cloud" the title to real property
and it can be an effective method for securing payment for labor or materials.
✔✔Who is entitled to a Mechanics lien? - ✔✔States designate lien rights for contractors,
subcontractors or material suppliers who provide labor or furnish material for
construction, repairs or improvements of any building machine, wharf or bridge.
✔✔Amount subject to a lien - ✔✔Lien may be established up to 15% of the building's
value regardless of the amount contracted for labor and materials. Additionally, if work
is done on an existing building does not increase the value of the property by 15%, then
MD will not permit establishment of the mechanics lien. This does not apply to newly
constructed building.
✔✔Whats the deadline to file a lien? - ✔✔No later than 180 days after last furnishing
labor or materials
✔✔What properties are subject to a lien? - ✔✔Buildings
Water,lines, sewers, drains, and street developments
Machines, wharves and bridges
Exemptions - the land of which the building is erected may not be subjected to a lien
under this subtitles if prior to the establishment of the lien in accordance with this
subtitle, legal title has been granted to a bona fide purchaser for value
Filing of a petition constitutes notice to purchaser
✔✔Notice to Owner by Sbcontractor - ✔✔A subcontractor doing work or furnishing
materials or both for or about a building other than a single family dwelling being
erected on the owners land for his own residence is not entitled to a lien under this
subtitle unless, within 120 days after doing work or furnishing the materials, the
subcontractor gives written notice of an intention to claim a lien substantially in the form
specified in subsection (b) of this section (See page 4-5)
✔✔How to deliver a lien - ✔✔Mail or personal delivery
✔✔To file lien claim, time ? - ✔✔In order to establish a lien under this subtitle, a person
entitled to lien shall filed proceedings in the court for the county where the land or any
part of the land is located within 18- days after the work has been finished or the
materials furnished.
✔✔T or F - Is it the employers responsibility to understand the OSHA standards and
quickly correct any violations? - ✔✔True
EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED
A+
✔✔Workers Comp requirements? - ✔✔An employer who has one or more employees
must carry workers comp insurance
✔✔Unemployment requirements? - ✔✔Program that provides unemployment benefits
top eligible workers who become unemployed through no fault of their own.
✔✔Required postings by law - ✔✔See page 3-11
✔✔Basics to include in Company handbook - ✔✔- Company history
- Compensation guidelines (introductory period, full time requirements etc)
- Payroll distribution dates and times
- Benefits
- Normal working hours
- Overtime pay
- Vacation time
- Sick days
- Policy on sexual harassment
- Policy on use of illegal drugs
- Non discrimination policy
- Rules of conduct (disciplinary action for insubordination, fighting, etc)
- Safety policies
- Equipment and tool policies
- Disciplinary actions procedures
✔✔Ways to motivate employees - ✔✔- provide formal and informal opportunities for
employees to learn new skills
- Empower employees to make decisions and give positive and constructive feedback
- provide clear expectations for your employees
- Conduct performance reviews on a regular basis
- Mentor your employees and tell them about advancement opportunities
- Recognize and reward good work
✔✔What does Workers Compensation provide? - ✔✔monetary compensation to
employees who are injured or disabled on the job
✔✔What does At Will Employee mean? - ✔✔The employer or the employee may
terminate employment at any time without notice or cause.
An employer may not terminate employment due to discriminatory reasons, for taking
time off to serve on a jury, for reporting health or safety violations
, ✔✔What is a lien - ✔✔Mechanic's or materialmen's lien "cloud" the title to real property
and it can be an effective method for securing payment for labor or materials.
✔✔Who is entitled to a Mechanics lien? - ✔✔States designate lien rights for contractors,
subcontractors or material suppliers who provide labor or furnish material for
construction, repairs or improvements of any building machine, wharf or bridge.
✔✔Amount subject to a lien - ✔✔Lien may be established up to 15% of the building's
value regardless of the amount contracted for labor and materials. Additionally, if work
is done on an existing building does not increase the value of the property by 15%, then
MD will not permit establishment of the mechanics lien. This does not apply to newly
constructed building.
✔✔Whats the deadline to file a lien? - ✔✔No later than 180 days after last furnishing
labor or materials
✔✔What properties are subject to a lien? - ✔✔Buildings
Water,lines, sewers, drains, and street developments
Machines, wharves and bridges
Exemptions - the land of which the building is erected may not be subjected to a lien
under this subtitles if prior to the establishment of the lien in accordance with this
subtitle, legal title has been granted to a bona fide purchaser for value
Filing of a petition constitutes notice to purchaser
✔✔Notice to Owner by Sbcontractor - ✔✔A subcontractor doing work or furnishing
materials or both for or about a building other than a single family dwelling being
erected on the owners land for his own residence is not entitled to a lien under this
subtitle unless, within 120 days after doing work or furnishing the materials, the
subcontractor gives written notice of an intention to claim a lien substantially in the form
specified in subsection (b) of this section (See page 4-5)
✔✔How to deliver a lien - ✔✔Mail or personal delivery
✔✔To file lien claim, time ? - ✔✔In order to establish a lien under this subtitle, a person
entitled to lien shall filed proceedings in the court for the county where the land or any
part of the land is located within 18- days after the work has been finished or the
materials furnished.
✔✔T or F - Is it the employers responsibility to understand the OSHA standards and
quickly correct any violations? - ✔✔True
