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said license after the first day of May, 1943, unless such per-
son, prior to said date, shall file an application with the State
Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers, upon forms to
be provided by said Board, for a renewal of said license.
Upon the receipt of an application for a renewal of license,
as herein provided, accompanied by an annual renewal fee of
two dollars ($2. 00), the said Board shall issue to said appli-
cant a license to practice embalming in this State, which said
license shall show that it expires on the first day of May next
succeeding its issuance. Any such license may be renewed annu-
ally upon the payment of the gum of two dollars ($2. 00) as an
annual renewal fee, and upon the filing of the renewal appli-
cation form herein provided. Should any person, now or here-
after licensed to practice embalming in this State, discontinue
said practice after the first day of May and fail to renew
annually his license during the period in which such practice
is discontinued, as is herein provided, he shall be entitled, if he
desires to resume practice in this State at a later date, to a
renewal of his license upon the payment of the current renewal
fee, together with the application herein provided, and an affi-
davit by said applicant that during the period in which no
renewal of his license had been issued, he had not practiced
embalming in this State.

Any person or persons who shall practice or hold himself
or themselves out as embalmers in this State, without having
renewed said embalmer's license, as herein provided, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to the criminal
penalties provided in Section 342 of this Article, for practicing
embalming in this State without a license.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of
the General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date
of its passage.

Approved May 4, 1943.

CHAPTER 572.
(House Bill 590)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 4 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Charter
(1938 Edition), title "Baltimore City", sub-title "Executive