1618 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 752

Engineer", "Registered Land Surveyor", or "Registered
Professional Engineer and Land Surveyor. " Plans, speci-
fications, plats, and reports approved by a registrant shall
be stamped with the said seal when filed with public
authorities, during the life of the registrant's certificate,
but it shall be unlawful for anyone to stamp or seal any
documents with said seal after the certificate of the regis-
trant named thereon has been revoked, unless said certifi-
cate shall have been reissued.

16. Practitioners at Time Article Became Effective. At
any time within one year after this Article becomes effec-
tive, upon due application therefor and the payment of a
registration fee of fifteen dollars ($15. 00) for professional
engineers or professional engineers and land surveyors, or
ten dollars ($10. 00) for land surveyors—the Board shall
issue a certificate of registration, without oral or written
examination, to any professional engineer or land sur-
veyor who shall submit evidence under oath satisfactory to
the Board that he is of good character, has been a resident
of the State of Maryland for at least one year immedi-
ately preceding the date of his application, and was prac-
ticing professional engineering if an engineer, or land
surveying if a surveyor, at the time this Article became
effective, and has performed work of a character satisfac-
tory to the Board.

After this Article shall have been in effect one year, the
Board shall issue certificates of registration only as pro-
vided for in Section 12 or Section 18 thereof.

17. Public and Private Work. Nothing in this Act
shall be construed to require any person, firm, or corpora-
tion, or the state, or any of its political subdivisions, to
employ the services of a licensed professional engineer,
or a licensed land surveyor, or a licensed professional engi-
neer and land surveyor, in any project of any kind what-
soever, or in any position involving professional engineer-
ing or land surveying, or both.

18. Reciprocity. The Board may enter into agree-
ments for reciprocity with the licensing agencies of other
jurisdictions and issue without fee or examination, if such
reciprocal arrangements can be made, a certificate of Reg-
istration as a Professional Engineer or Land Surveyor to
any person legally qualified to practice in other jurisdic-
tions whose license requirements are acceptable to the
Board, giving full faith and credence to the acts of the
authority by which they were qualified. When agreements
for reciprocity without fee cannot be made, the fee for a