1214 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 702

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 em-
balming whose course of instruction is not less than
nine months, comprising 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 apprentice 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 Maryland at the time he or she started to serve
his or her apprenticeship, then said applicant shall be ex-
amined theoretically and practically in anatomy, sanitation,
disinfection, embalming, caring for and preparing for burial
and shipment, of dead human bodies, and in the laws and reg-
ulations relating to contagions, infections, 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 335 of this Article, and shall register in the regis-
tration book provided in Section 335 of this Article such ap-
plicant or applicants as duly licensed embalmers. On pay-
ment of one examination 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 provis-
ions of this Article shall go to said State Board to be used
by it for the purposes of defraying its expenses.

All persons receiving such license to practice embalming
in this State who shall register before said Board as provided
in this sub-title shall also register such fact at the office of
the Board of Health in the City or County in which he or she
proposes to practice said profession of embalming.

338. The said Board shall have the power at any time to
suspend or revoke any license heretofore granted to carry on
the business of funeral director or the profession of embalm-
ing for the following causes and after full hearing of all
parties in interest:

1. Conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude.

2. Unprofessional conduct which is hereby refined as fol-
lows:

(a) Misrepresentation or fraud in the conduct of the busi-
ness of a Funeral Director or Embalmer.