HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1213

such person, members of co-partnership or corporation shall
apply to said Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers 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 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 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 Maryland at the time
he or she started to serve his or her apprenticeship, then said
applicant or applicants shall be examined as to the proper
sanitation and disinfection of the clothing and bedding of
persons dying from infectious or contagious diseases and the
premises in which they shall have died; as to 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 or shipment of dead
human bodies, and on such other subjects as the Board may
deem necessary and proper, and if said applicant 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 the same terms
and provisions as are provided in Section 332 of this sub-
title, provided that nothing contained herein shall apply to
any registered apprentice of a licensed Funeral Director act-
ing under his or her supervision.

337. 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 335 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