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(2) Any gross negligence, incompetency, or misconduct
in the practice of professional engineering or land surveying
as a registered professional engineer or land surveyor.

(b) Any person may prefer charges of fraud, deceit, gross
negligence, incompetency, or misconduct against any regis-
trant. Such charges shall be in writing, and shall be sworn
to by the one making them and shall be filed with the secre-
tary of the Board.

All charges, unless dismissed by the Board as unfounded
or trivial, shall be heard by the Board within three months
after the date on which they shall have been preferred.

The time and place for said hearing shall be fixed by the
Board, and a copy of the charges, together with a notice of
the time and place of hearing, shall be personally served on
or mailed to the last known address of such registrant, at
least thirty days before the date fixed for the hearing. At
any hearing, the accused registrant shall have the right to
appear personally and by counsel, to cross-examine witnesses
appearing against him, and to produce evidence and witnesses
in his own defense.

If, after such hearing, three or more members of the Board
vote in favor of finding the accused guilty, the Board shall
revoke the certificate of registration of such registered pro-
fessional engineer or land surveyor.

(c) Eeissuance of Certificates.) The Board, for reasons
it may deem sufficient, may re-issue a certificate of registra-
tion to any person whose certificate has been revoked, provid-
ing three or more members of the Board vote in favor of
such reissuance. A new certificate of registration, to replace
any certificate revoked, lost, destroyed, or mutilated, may be
issued, subject to the rules of the Board, and a charge of
Three Dollars (|3.00) shall be made for such issuance.

(d) (Appeals.) Any person who shall feel aggrieved by
any action of the Board in denying or revoking his Certifi-
cate of registration may appeal therefrom to the Baltimore
City Court or to the Circuit Court for any county and, after
full hearing, said court shall make such decree sustaining
or reversing the action of the Board as to it may seem just
and proper.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved March 3, 1947.