2160 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 899

to said Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers for a
license to practice embalming; and such applicant or
applicants shall present himself or herself before said
Board at the time and place to be fixed by said Board, and
if the Board shall find, upon due examination and the pay-
ment of an examination fee of twenty-five dollars, that the
applicant or applicants are of good moral character, twen-
ty-one years of age and free from habits liable to interfere
with the performance of the duties which he or she de-
sires to assume, that he or she has had a high school educa-
tion or the equivalent thereof, and that he or she is a
graduate from a regular recognized college of embalming
whose course of instruction is not less than nine months,
comprising eight hundred and forty hours of study, and
that said applicant has had two years of practical experi-
ence as an apprentice with a licensed embalmer in this
State and 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 examined theoretically and practically in anatomy, sani-
tation, disinfection, embalming, caring for and preparing
for burial and shipment, of dead human bodies, and in the
laws and regulations relating to contagious, infectious, and
communicable diseases, and if said applicant shall pass
said examination, the said Board shall issue to said appli-
cant or applicants upon the payment of a fee of five dol-
lars 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 Sec-
tion 335 of this Article such applicant or applicants as duly
licensed embalmers; provided that said Board shall issue
a license to and register, without examination, any licensed
Maryland funeral director who has had ten (10) years
practical experience in the profession of embalming prior
to June 1, 1942, upon the notarized recommendation of
two Maryland licensed embalmers that such person has
regularly engaged in such profession and is qualified to do
such work. Provided further, that application for said
license shall be filed with said Board on or before July 1,
1947. 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 col-
lected by said State Board of Funeral Directors and Em-
balmers under the provisions of this Article shall go to
said State Board to be used by it for the purposes of de-
fraying its expenses.