670

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ployee of any such person, copartnership or corporation or of-

ficer of such corporation, whose duties now engage him or her

in the care, preparation, disposition, or burial of the dead, who

shall have failed to register with the said Board in accordance

with Section 7 of this Act, shall then continue in such business,

such persons, copartnerships, corporations, members of such

copartnerships and all assistants and employees of any such

persons, copartnerships or corporations and officers of such cor-

porations, whose duties engage him or her in the care, prep-

Shall apply to

aration, disposition or burial of the dead, shall apply to the

State Board
fur license.

said Board for a license to practice the same ; thereupon the ap-

plicant as aforesaid shall present himself or herself before said

Board at a time and place to be fixed by said Board, and if the

said Board shall find upon due examination that the applicant

has been employed at least two years prior to said application

by some person, firm or corporation actively engaged in the

work of practical embalming and undertaking and is of good

moral character, possessed of skill and knowledge of the said

business, and has a reasonable knowledge of sanitation, preser-

vation of the dead, disinfecting the body of a deceased person,

the apartment, clothing and bedding, in case of death resulting

from infectious or contagious disease, the Board shall issue to

said applicant, upon the payment of a fee of twenty dollars, a

license to practice said business of undertaking in the State of

Maryland, and shall register such applicant as a duly licensed

undertaker ; provided, however, that such license shall be issued

to a corporation upon application therefor, and. provided fur-

ther, that one license as required by this section and Section 10

of this Act shall suffice for all the members of a copartnership

when issued in the firm name. Such license shall be signed

by a majority of the Board and attested by its seal. All per-

sons, copartnerships and corporations, immediately upon re-

ceiving the license provided in this section and in Section 10

of this Act, or the certificate of registration as provided in Sec-

Certificate of

f tion 7 of this Act, shall cause a copy of such license or certifi-

registration
to be dis-

cate of registration to be filed in the office of the local Board of

played.

Health of Maryland in the respective county or in the City of

Baltimore in which it is proposed to carry on said business, or

engage in the discharge of such employment ; said license or

certificate of registration shall be displayed in a conspicuous

place in the office or place of business of such licensee.

Right to re-

9. The Board shall have power at any time to revoke.

voke etc. a

cancel or suspend any license heretofore granted, for and upon

license

proper cause shown, and after a full hearing of all the parties in

interest shall have been had. At said hearing testimony shall

be given under oath administered by some person competent

under the law to take affidavits, and such testimony shall be

taken down by shorthand by a competent stenographer ap-

pointed by said Board, which testimony shall be typewritten and

returned under the oath of said stenographer to said Board.

Approved April 7, 1901.