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the same terms and provisions as are provided in Section 296
of this sub-title, provided that nothing contained herein shall
apply to any registered apprentice of a licensed Funeral
Director acting under his or her supervision.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new section be
and the same is hereby added to Article 43 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Health", sub-title
"Undertakers", said new section to be known as Section 299A,
to follow immediately after Section 299, and to read as
follows:

299A. Before any person shall hereafter serve as an ap-
prentice of a licensed Funeral Director such person shall
register as an apprentice of a licensed Funeral Director with
the State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers of Mary-
land in such manner as the said Board may direct, and shall
renew said registration annually thereafter on or before the
first day of May in each year so long as he shall continue to
serve as such apprentice. Each such apprentice shall pay to
said Board a fee of five dollars for the original and for each
renewal registration.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted That Section 300 of Art-
icle 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503 of the Acts of 1937, be and the same is hereby repealed and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:

300. Before any person or persons shall hereafter engage
in the profession of embalming in this State, and before any
person or persons now so engaged in said profession of em-
balming in this State who shall fail to register with said
Board in accordance with Section 299 of this Article, shall
continue to carry on said profession of embalming in this
State, such person or persons shall apply to said Board of
Funeral Directors and Embalmers for a license to practice
embalming; and such applicant or applicants shall present
himself or herself before said Board at the time and place to
be fixed by said Board, and if the Board shall find, upon due
examination and the payment of an examination 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 performance of the duties which he or
she desires to assume, that he or she has had a high school
education 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, com-