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the child was born, or a qualified practitioner of medicine, of
such condition of such child.

SEC. 77. Every midwife who attends a mother at the birth
of a live-born child shall make out and file a certificate of birth
as provided in Section 14 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code
of Public General Laws. Whenever a midwife shall attend
any mother who gives birth to a still-born child he or she shall
immediately notify the coroner having jurisdiction over the dis-
trict in which such still-born child is born, and shall immediate-
ly file a certificate of birth for such still-born child with the
registrar of vital statistics for the district in which such child
was born.

SEC. 78. The State Board of Health is hereby authorized
and empowered to adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent
with law, governing the licensure of midwives and the practice
of midwifery in this State.

The State Board of Health shall keep an accurate and com-
plete register of midwives, and shall enforce all the provisions
of this Act.

SEC. 79. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of this Act, or of the rules or regulations adopted hereunder by
the State Board of Health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, and any midwife who shall be
twice convicted of a violation of the provisions of this Act, or
the rules or regulations adopted hereunder, shall in addition to
the other penalties herein provided, forfeit her license to prac-
tice midwifery and shall not be permitted thereafter to practice
in this State. Provided that no person to whom a rule or regu-
lation of said Board has not been mailed, prior to the violation
of such rule or regulation, shall be prosecuted for such violation
thereof.

SEC. 80. Any midwife who shall be convicted of producing
an abortion or inducing premature labor, shall, in addition to
the other penalties provided by law, forfeit her license to prac-
tice midwifery and shall not thereafter be permitted to prac-
tice midwifery in this State.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of
laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby re-
pealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

Approved April 9, 1924.