(a) A fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00) shall be paid to the department for the original issuance of an employer's permit.(b) For each annual renewal of such permit, the employer or representative contractor shall pay to the department a fee of--(1) One hundred dollars ($100.00), where at no time during the preceding year did the employer, or representative contractor, directly or indirectly, have business relations simultaneously with more than one hundred home-workers.(2) Two hundred dollars ($200.00), where at any time during the preceding year the employer, or representative contractor, directly or indirectly, had business relations simultaneously with more than one hundred, but less than three hundred home-workers.(3) Three hundred dollars ($300.00), where at any time during the preceding year the employer, or representative contractor, directly or indirectly, had business relations simultaneously with three hundred or more home-workers.(c) A fee of three hundred dollars ($300.00) shall be paid to the department for the issuance of a contractor's permit. For each annual renewal of such permit, the contractor shall pay to the department a fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00).(d) No fee shall be required for the original issuance of an employer's, representative contractor's or contractor's permit nor renewal thereof for employment of handicapped people where the department finds:(1) That a person is unable to adjust to factory employment because of old age or physical or mental deficiency or disability or is unable to leave home because his services are essential to care for an invalid in the home;(2) That the employer and home-worker comply with all requirements and conditions of this act and all rules and regulations of the department;(3) That such limited distribution of work to handicapped persons is not inconsistent with the purpose and policy of this act.1937, May 18, P.L. 665, § 10. Amended 1953, July 25, P.L. 575, No. 153, §§ 1, 2; 1976, Nov. 24, P.L. 1196, No. 263, § 2.