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STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

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236. Registration of undertakers out- side of Baltimore city and cer- tain counties. Certificate; tran- script. 237. Petition to practice. Qualifica- tions. Provisos. License; copy to be recorded. 238. Revocation and suspension of license. Testimony. 239. Expiration of certificates and licenses. New license and re- newal. 240. Violation of sections 236, 237 and 239.

241. Certificates and licenses not trans- ferable; contents thereof. 242. Disposition of fees. 243. Annual report. Balance of money. 244. This sub-title not to apply to cer- tain counties. 245. Xo appointee from exempted coun- ties. 246. School of undertaking and em- balming. 247. Cost of maintenance.

State Board of Health.

1904, art. 43, sec. 1. 1888, art. 43, sec. 1. 1874, ch. 200. 1880, ch. 438, sec. 2.

1. A board is hereby established which shall be known under the
name and style of the "State Board of Health of Maryland." It shall
consist of seven members, as follows: four members, one of whom' shall
be an experienced civil engineer, and three of whom shall be expe-
rienced physicians, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice
and consent of the senate, and a secretary, as provided in section 4;
these five, together, with the attorney-general of the State, and the com-
missioner of health of the city of Baltimore, who shall be ex-officio
members, shall constitute the said board of health. The persons so
appointed by the governor shall hold office for four years; provided,
that those first appointed shall be so classed by the governor that the
term of office of two shall expire on the last day of January in every
second year; thereafter the governor, with the advice and consent of the
senate, shall biennially appoint two members in the place of the two
whose terms shall so expire, who shall hold office for four years; and all
vacancies occurring otherwise shall be filled by the governor, with the
advice and consent of the senate.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art. 43, sec. 2. 1880, ch. 483, sec. 3.

2. The state board of health shall have the general care of the
sanitary interests of the people of this State; they shall make sanitary
investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of disease, and espe-
cially epidemics, the causes of mortality and the influence of locality,
employments, habits, and other circumstances and conditions upon the
health of the people; they shall inquire into and investigate all
nuisances affecting the public health in any county, city or village in
the State, and are authorized and empowered, by information or peti-
tion filed in the name of the board, to apply to the judges, or to any
judge of the circuit court for the county in which such nuisance shall
exist, or to the judge of the circuit court of Baltimore city, as the case
may be, in term time or vacation, for an injunction to restrain and
prevent such nuisance, no matter by whom or what authority committed.
See sections 22 and 23.