1944 ARTICLE 43

The Board shall have the power to grant an examination to the, class
known as Class A Applicants provided they pass the following qualifica-
tions :

Graduates of an approved High School, or the equivalent thereof, plus
such experience in the office or offices of an architect or architects engaged
in the professional practice of architecture as a livelihood plus three years
of diversified practical experience in an office or offices of a recognized
Architect or Architects. "College" for the purpose of this provision shall
mean an educational institution maintaining a course in architecture with
standards of entrance, curricula and teaching approved by the National
Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

¹ (b) Class B Applicants shall consist of all those persons applying for
examination who have been engaged in the rightful, independent profes-
sional practice of architecture as a principal for at least ten years.

The Board shall hold examinations for Class B Applicants, to which
shall be eligible any resident of the State who shall have had ten years
or more of proved, independent, legal practice as a principal in the pro-
fession of architecture, and who shall desire to change his status from
"registered by exemption" to "registered by examination."

After Class A Applicants and Class B Applicants have been registered,
both shall be subject to all the provisions and conditions of this sub-title.

(c) Non-Resident Applicants. All persons applying for registration on
the basis of examination credit secured through examinations taken in
another State or political sub-division of the United States, the District
of Columbia, or a foreign country or province, shall be granted a certifi-
cate of registration as a registered architect by the examining Board in its
discretion, upon the following conditions:

(1) That the applicant is of good moral character.

(2) That the requirements for registration or licensing of architects
in the particular .state, territory, District of Columbia, foreign country or
any other political subdivision of the United States or province were at
the date of license or registration, in the opinion of the Examining Board,
substantially equal to the requirements then in force in the State of
Maryland.

(3) That said applicant has taken and qualified in another state an
examination which in the opinion of the Examining Board is equivalent
to that required for similar applicants in this State; if, however, such
applicant has taken an examination in another state on subjects which are
the equivalent of that required in the State of Maryland, but has failed
to take an examination on other subjects required for admission to prac-
tice in the State of Maryland, he may at the discretion of the Examining
Board be granted credit on the approved examinations and be required
to be examined only on the subjects in which his original examination was
deficient.

(d) Exempted Applicants. All citizens of Maryland applying for regis-
tration on the basis of exemption on account of having been engaged in
the profession of Architecture under the title "Architect" as a principal,
for a livelihood, at the time of the passage of this sub-title, 21 years of age
and of good moral character, provided that any such person shall register
within cine year from June 1, 1935.

The Examining Board shall have power to issue licenses for practice
as architects to those found to have the proper qualifications to practice,