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ART. XLIII] UNDERTAKERS. 321
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, pres-
ervation of the dead, disinfecting the body of a deceased person, the
apartment, clothing and bedding, in case of death resulting from infec-
tious or contagious disease, the Board shall issue to said applicant, upon
the payment of a fee of twenty dollars, a license to practice said busi-
ness 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 further that one license as required by this Section and Sec-
tion 239 shall suffice for all the members of a co-partnership when
issued in the firm name. Such license shall be signed by a majority
of the Board and attested by its seal. All persons, co-partnerships and
corporations, immediately upon receiving the license provided in this
Section and in Section 239, or the certificate of registration as pro-
vided in Section 236, shall cause a copy of such license or certifi-
cate of registration to be filed in the office of the local Board of
Health of Maryland in the respective county or in the City of Balti-
more 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 busi-
ness of such licensee.*
Since the act of 1910. chapter 444 (see this section as it stood in volume
1 of the Annotated Code), re-enacts the same provisions as were declared
void in State v. Rice. 115 Md. 317, a demurrer to counts of an indictment
based on said act is properly sustained. Keller v. State, 122 Md. 679.
See notes to section 236.
1918, ch. 254.
237A. Any person, co-partnership or corporation licensed to carry
on the business of undertaking in the City of Baltimore, may, by
filing with the State Board of Undertakers of Maryland an application
setting forth the name and address of any person or persons desired
as an employee or assistant, and that said person or persons is or are
of good moral character, and possessed of reasonable skill and knowl-
edge of said business, and upon the payment of a fee of five dollars for
each person so named as said assistant or employee, secure a certificate
or certificates, which certificate or certificates shall be issued by the
Secretary of the said State Board of Undertakers of Maryland during
the interim of the meetings of said Board, and which said certificate or
certificates shall authorize the person or persons so named to act as an
employee or assistant only to a person, co-partnership or corporation
licensed to carry on the business of undertaking in the City of Balti-
more, and only until the first day of May next succeeding the granting
of said certificate. No person named in such certificate shall be entitled
*The act of 1904, chapter 389. section 8. is here codified in view of the deci-
sions in State v. Rice, 115 Md. 317, and Keller v. State. 122 Md. 679.
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