1046 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 503

on the business of Funeral Directing in the State of Mary-
land up to and including the first day of May next succeeding
the granting of said license. Any such license may be re-
newed annually upon the payment to the State Board of
Funeral Directors and Embalmers of Maryland of an annual
renewal license fee of five dollars by such person, co-partner-
ship or corporation to whom such license shall have been
issued. Such license shall be signed by the Secretary of the
State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers of Mary-
land and attested by its seal, and such licenses may be
issued by the Secretary of said Board during the interim of
the meetings of the said Board upon proper application and
the payment of such license fee of five dollars.

297. Before any person shall hereafter engage in the busi-
ness of Funeral Directing in this State and before any person,
co-partnership or corporation now so engaged in said business
in this State, who shall fail to register with said Board in ac-
cordance with Section 296 of this sub-title, shall continue to
carry on said business of Funeral Directing in this State, such
person, members of co-partnership or corporation shall apply
to said Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers for license
to carry on the business of Funeral Directing, shall present
himself or herself before said Board at time and place to be
fixed by said Board and if the Board shall find, upon due
examination and the payment of an examination fee of
twenty-five dollars, that the applicant or applicants are of
good moral character twenty-one years of age, and free
from habits liable to interfere with the performance
of the duties which he or she desires to perform that
said applicant has had two years of practical experience
as an apprentice with a licensed funeral director in this State
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 or applicants shall be examined as to the prop-
er sanitation and disinfection of the clothing and bedding of
persons dying from infectious or contagious diseases and the
premises in which they shall have died; of the Laws of this
State and the Local Laws of the residence of such deceased
person relative to burials and burial permits and the proper
care, preparation for burial and burial or shipment of dead
human bodies and if said applicant or applicants shall pass
said examination, then said Board shall issue to said appli-
cant or applicants, upon the payment of the fee of five dollars,
a license to carry on said business of Funeral Director
in the State of Maryland up to and including the first
of May next succeeding the granting of said license, which
license may be renewed annually under the same terms and