1896 ARTICLE 43

as an apprentice has assisted in embalming not less than twenty dead
bodies, and that he or she registered as an apprentice with the State Board
of Funeral Directors and Embalmers of Maryland at the time he or she
started to serve his or her apprenticeship, then said applicant shall be ex-
amined theoretically and practically in anatomy, sanitation, disinfection,
embalming, caring for and preparing for burial and shipment, of dead
human bodies, and in the laws and regulations relating to contagious, in-
fectious, and communciable diseases, and if said applicant shall pass said
examination, the said Board shall issue to said applicant or applicants
upon the payment of a fee of five dollars a license to practice the profession
of embalming in the same manner as is provided in Section 335 of this
Article, and shall register in the registration book provided in Section
335 of this Article such applicant or applicants as duly licensed embalmers,
On payment of one examination fee, the applicant shall be entitled to two
examinations and no more; and said Board shall hold such examination
annually. All fees collected by said State Board of Funeral Directors and
Embalmers under the provisions of this Article shall go to said State
Board to be used by it for the purposes of defraying its expenses.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 301. 1924, ch. 575, sec. 239. 1937, ch. 503, sec. 301.

338. The said Board shall have the power at any time to suspend or
revoke any license heretofore granted to carry on the business of funeral
director or the profession of embalming on proper cause and after full hear-
ing of all parties in interest. All persons receiving such license to practice
embalming in this State who shall register before said Board as provided
in this sub-title shall also register such fact at the office of the Board of
Health in the city or county in which he or she proposes to practice sard
profession of embalming.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 302. 1924, ch. 575, sec. 240. 1937, ch. 503, sec. 302.

339. No license granted or issued to practice the profession of embalm-
ing under the provisions of this sub-title shall be assignable or transferable,
and every license shall specify by name the person to whom it is issued.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 303. 1924, ch. 575, sec. 241. 1937, ch. 503, sec. 303.

340. The duties of an embalmer and the profession of embalming as
referred to in this sub-title shall be and the same are hereby defined to be,
the thorough disinfection of the human body or any part thereof by arterial
and cavity injection.

1939, ch. 609, sec. 303A.

341. Before any person shall hereafter serve as an apprentice of a
licensed embalmer such person shall register as an apprentice of a licensed
embalmer with the State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers of
Maryland in such manner as the said Board may direct, and shall renew
said registration annually thereafter on or before the first day of May
in each year so long as he shall continue to serve as such, apprentice. Each
such apprentice shall pay to said Board a fee of five dollars f or the original
and for each renewal registration.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 304. 1924, ch. 575, sec. 242. 1935, ch. 565. 1937, ch. 503, sec. 304.

342. Any person, persons, co-partnership or corporation who shall
engage in or hold himself, herself, themselves, or itself out as engaging