1446 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 575

of Health in the city or county in which he or she proposes to
practice said profession of embalming.

240. 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.

241. 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 human
body or any part thereof by arterial and cavity injection.

242. Any person, persons, co-partnership or corporation
who shall engage in or hold himself, herself, themselves, or
itself out as engaging in the business of Undertaking or dis-
charge the duties of such employment as shall engage him or
her in the care, preparation for burial, and burial or shipment
of dead human bodies and the disinfection of the clothing and
bedding of such deceased person who shall have died from an
infectious or contageous disease, or the premises in which he
or she shall have died without having complied with the pro-
visions of Sections 236 and 236A of this Article and any
superintendent or person in charge (in the absence of the
superintendent) of any cemetery or burial place, who shall
permit any other person then a duly licensed Undertaker,
under Sections 236 and 236A of this Act, to deliver for burial
or offer for cremation the body of a deceased person shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before
any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not more
than one hundred dollars, or sentenced to undergo an imprison-
ment for a term not exceeding one year or both in the discre-
tion of the Court for each and every offense. Any person or
persons who shall practice or hold himself, herself or them-
selves out as embalmers in this State, without having complied
with the provisions of this sub-title shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any Court in
this State shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than fifty
nor more than five hundred dollars, or undergo an imprison-
ment not exceeding one year, or both at the discretion of the
Court, for each and every offense; provided that nothing con-
tained in this sub-title shall be construed to apply to bona fide
employees of a duly licensed embalmer, who are serving their
internship, or the employee of any cemetery whose duty ex-
tends no further, or any school of anatomy, medicine or den-