1212 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 609

prising eight hundred and forty hours of study, and that said
applicant has had two years of practical experience as an
apprentice with a licensed embalmer in this State and as an ap-
prentice has assisted in embalming not less than twenty dead
bodies, 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
apprenticeship, then said applicant shall be examined theo-
retically and practically in anatomy, sanitation, disinfection,
embalming, caring for and preparing for burial and shipment,
of dead human bodies, and in the laws and regulations relat-
ing to contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases, and
if said applicant shall pass said examination, the said Board
shall issue to said applicant or applicants upon the payment
of a fee of five dollars a license to practice the profession of
embalming in the same manner as is provided in Section 299
of this Article, and shall register in the registration book
provided in Section 299 of this Article such applicant or appli-
cants as duly licensed embalmers. On payment of one exam-
ination fee, the applicant shall be entitled to two examinations
and no more; and said Board shall hold such examination
annually. All fees collected by said State Board of Funeral
Directors and Embalmers under the provisions of this Article
shall go to said State Board to be used by it for the purposes
of defraying its expenses.

SEC. 4. 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 303A,
to follow immediately after Section 303, and to read as
follows:

303A. Before any person shall hereafter serve as an appren-
tice of a licensed embalmer such person shall register as an
apprentice of a licensed embalmer with the State Board of
Funeral Directors and Embalmers of Maryland in such man-
ner as the said Board may direct, and shall renew said regis-
tration 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. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 11, 1939.