1048 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 503

desires 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 six months, comprising eight
hundred and forty hours of study, and that said applicant has
had two years of practical experience as an apprentice with a
licensed embalmer 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 appli-
cant shall be examined theoretically and practically in anat-
omy, sanitation, disinfection, embalming, caring for and pre-
paring 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 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 299 of this Article, and shall reg-
ister in the registration book provided in Section 299
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 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 defraying its
expenses.

301. 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 profes-
sion of embalming on proper cause and after full hearing of all
parties in interest. All persons receiving such license to prac-
tice 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 said profession of em-
balming.

302. No license granted or issued to practice the profession
of embalming 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.

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