1210 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 609

299A providing for the annual registration of apprentices
of funeral directors; and to add a new section to said Art-
icle 43 to be known as Section 303A providing¹ for the annual
registration of apprentices of embalmers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 297 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Health", sub-title "Undertakers", as the same
was enacted by Chapter 503 of the Acts of 1937, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

297. Before any person shall hereafter engage in the busi-
ness of Funeral Directing in this State and before any per-
son, co-partnership or corporation now so engaged in said
business in this State, who shall fail to register with said
Board in accordance 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 corpora-
tion shall apply to said Board of Funeral Directors and Em-
balmers 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 ex-
amination 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 per-
formance 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 as an apprentice has assisted on not less than twenty
funerals, and that he or she registered as an apprentice with
the State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers of Mary-
land at the time he or she started to serve his or her ap-
prenticeship, then said applicant or applicants shall be
examined as to the proper sanitation and disinfection of the
clothing and bedding of persons dying from infections or con-
tagions 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 appli-
cant or applicants shall pass said examinations, then said
Board shall issue to said applicant 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