630 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 309

The Board shall have the power to grant an examination
to the class known as Class A Applicants provided they pass
the following qualifications:

Graduates of an approved High School, or the equivalent
thereof, plus such experience in the office or offices of
an architect or architects engaged in the professional prac-
tice of architecture as a livelihood plus three years of diver-
sified practical experience in an office or offices of a recog-
nized Architect or Architects. "College" for the purpose
of this provision shall mean an educational institution
maintaining a course in architecture with standards of en-
trance, curricula and teaching approved by the National
Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

(b) Class B Applicants shall consist of all those per-
sons applying for examination who have been engaged in
the rightful, independent professional practice of architec-
ture as a principal for at least ten years.

The Board shall hold examinations for Class B Appli-
cants, to which shall be eligible any resident of the State
who shall have had ten years or more of proved, indepen-
dent, legal practice as a principal in the profession of archi-
tecture, and who shall desire to change his status from
"registered by exemption" to "registered by examination. "

After Class A Applicants and Class B Applicants have
been registered, both shall be subject to all the provisions
and conditions of this Act.

(c) Non-Resident Applicants. All persons applying
for registration on the basis of examination credit secured
through examinations taken in another State 01 political
sub-division of the United States, the District of Columbia,
or a foreign country or province, shall be granted a certi-
ficate of registration as a registered architect by the
examining Board in its discretion, upon the following con-
ditions:

(1) That the applicant is of good moral character.

(2) That the requirements for registration or licensing
of architects in the particular state, territory, District of
Columbia, foreign country or any other political sub-
division of the United States or province were at the date
of license or registration, in the opinion of the Examining
Board, substantially equal to the requirements then in force
in the State of Maryland.

(3) That said applicant has taken and qualified in
another state an examination which in the opinion of the
Examining Board is equivalent to that required for similar
applicants in this State; if, however, such applicant has