MARYLAND MANUAL. 77
STATE BOARD OF UNDERTAKERS.
(All Terms Expire in May, 1933.)
Name. Postoffice.
Ex-Officio Members:
Dr. R. H. Riley ........ Director, State Board of Health
Dr. Huntington Williams Health Commissioner of Baltimore
Dr. J. Frederick Hempel Asst Health Commissioner of Baltimore
Members appointed by the Governor:
Martin F. Fahey, President . .. Baltimore
August F. Krause . .. . Baltimore
Chas. E. Delosier ... .. Ellicott City
Philip Herwig ...... .. ........ .. Baltimore
Jack Lewis . .............. - Baltimore
Harry B. Carty -. ........ Frederick
John A. Moran ................................................. Baltimore
Governor, with consent of Senate, appoints seven, who, with the
Secretary of the State Board of Health and the Commissioner and
Assistant Commissioner of Health of Baltimore, constitute the Board.
Before any person, co-partnership or corporation shall hereafter en-
gage in the business of undertaking in this State, and before any person,
co-partnership or corporation now so engaged in said. business in this
State, who shall fail to register with the State Board of Undertakers of
Maryland, in accordance with Section 238 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1924, Chapter 575, such person, co-partnership or corpora-
tion shall apply to said Board of Undertakers for a license. If the
Board, after an investigation and examination of the applicant is of the
opinion that he is entitled to such license, it is authorized to grant the
same upon payment of an examination fee of $25 00 and a license fee of
$5.00. The applicant is then registered. 8,6 a duly licensed undertaker.
who is required to renew said license annually.
Before any person or persons shall hereafter engage in the profes-
sion of embalming in this State, and before any person or persons now
go engaged in said profession of embalming in this State, who shall fail
to register with the above Board, in accordance with Section 237-A of
the Act of 1924, Chapter 575, shall continue to carry on said profession
of embalming in this State, such person or persons shall apply to said
Board of Undertakers for a license to practice embalming. If the Board
shall find, upon due examination and the payment of an examination
fee of $25.00, that the applicant has secured the required percentage in
the theoretical and practical examinations in anatomy) sanitation, dis-
infection ,embalming, etc., to entitle him to a license, the Board shall
issue to said applicant upon the payment of a fee of $5.00 a license to
practice the profession of embalming On payment of one examination
fee for an embalmer's license, the applicant shall be entitled to two ex-
aminations and no more; and said Board shall hold such examinations
annually. Embalmers' licenses are not required to be renewed.
The penalty for violations of the undertakers' law, relating to regis-
tration and licensing, is a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or
imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both.
The penalty for violations of the embalmers' law, relating to regis-
tration and licensing, is a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five
hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
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