Maryland Labor and Employment Section 9-236

      An individual is a covered employee while performing a service for compensation in the course of the business, occupation, profession, or trade of an employer if, in relation to the service, the individual:

            (1)      does not maintain a separate business;

            (2)      neither represents to the public that the individual provides the service nor provides the service to the public; and

            (3)      does not have a covered employee.