HEALTH. 1639

An. Code, sec. 221. 1904, sec. 182. 1904, ch. 226, sec. 13.

281. To shave, trim the beard or cut the hair of any person for hire or
reward received by the person performing such service, or any other person,
shall be construed as practising the occupation of a barber within the
meaning of this sub-title, which provisions shall not in any way apply to or
affect any person who is now occupied or working as a barber in this State,
nor any person employed in a barber shop, or an apprentice, except that a
person so employed less than three years prior to April 1, 1904, shall be
considered an apprentice, and at the expiration of such three years of such
employment shall be subject to the provisions of this sub-title.

There is a conflict between this section and secs. 274 and 276. This section ex-
empts from operation of secs. 274 and 276 all who were occupied or working as
barbers in this state at time act of 1904, ch. 26, was passed. This section is not
limited in its application to apprentices. State v. Tag, 100 Md. 589.

The portion of this section exempting from act of 1904, ch. 226, certain persons
theretofore employed as barbers, etc., held not to create an arbitrary or unreason-
able discrimination so as to make act of 1904 invalid. Criswell v. State, 126 Md. 104.

An. Code, sec. 222. 1904, sec. 183. 1904, ch. 226, sec. 14.

282. Any person violating any of the provisions of this sub-title shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars or imprisonment in the
county jail for a period of not less than thirty days or by both such fine
and imprisonment.

Plumbing.

An. Code, sec. 223. 1910, ch. 436, sec. 184 (p. 156).

283. It shall not be lawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ
as workmen to do plumbing work in the State of Maryland any persons
except those qualified to work at the plumbing business, as provided in this
subdivision of this article; and no person shall be qualified to work at the
plumbing business in this State unless he has made application to and
received from the state board of commissioners of practical plumbing the
certificate of competence described in section 285 of this article and is
otherwise qualified as required by this subdivision of this article. Any
person or firm engaged in the plumbing business in this State, and the
superintendent, manager, agent or other officer of any corporation engaged
in the plumbing business in this State, who shall employ any person to work
at the plumbing business who is not qualified as required by this subdivision
of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, 'upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars,
for every day or part of every day that such employer shall employ such
workman. And any person or firm not engaged in the plumbing business
in this State, and the superintendent, manager, agent or other officer of
any corporation not engaged in the plumbing business in this State, who
shall employ any person to do plumbing work in this State, knowing the
person so employed is not qualified to work at the plumbing business as
required by this subdivision of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten dollars, nor