174 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 210

with the provisions of this sub-title and the rules and regula-
tions adopted thereunder by the State Board of Health. No
license granted hereunder shall be assignable or transferable.

496F. (Inspections. ) The State Board of Health shall
cause each hospital in the State of Maryland to be periodically
inspected under rules and regulations to be established by
said Board of Health, as hereinafter provided.

Any hospital desiring to make any alteration or addition to
its buildings and plant or any change in any of its facilities
may, before making such change, alteration or addition, request
the State Board of Health to approve the same, provided, how-
ever, that nothing contained in this sub-title shall be construed
as in any way superseding the provisions of any local build-
ing code now in existence or hereafter enacted. Thereupon, the
State Board of Health shall investigate the change, alteration
or addition so contemplated to be made and as soon there-
after as reasonably practical shall notify the licensee that said
change, alteration or addition is approved or disapproved with
such recommendations as said State Board of Health shall care
to make.

496G. (Standards Established. ) The State Board of
Health shall have full power and authority to make and pro-
mulgate reasonable rules and regulations classifying hospitals
and prescribing minimum standards of safety and sanitation
in the physical plant, of diagnostic, therapeutic and laboratory
facilities and equipment of each class of hospitals, provided,
however, that nothing contained in this sub-title shall affect
the right of each institution to employ its own personnel and
staff, and provided further that said rules and regulations are
not in conflict with any provisions of this sub-title. The State
Board of Health may modify, amend or rescind such regula-
tions from time to time as may be in the public interest.

496H. (Appeals. ) Any person aggrieved by the refusal of
the State Board of Health to issue a license may, within ten
(10) days after receipt of notice of such action or failure to
act, take an appeal therefrom to a court having equity juris-
diction in the County or in the City of Baltimore where such
hospital is located or contemplated and a copy of such appeal
shall be filed with the State Board of Health. Within five (5)
days after the receipt of such copy, the State Board of Health
shall transmit to such court all the original papers pertaining
to such application, and such appeal shall thereafter be heard
by such court as promptly as circumstances will reasonably
permit. Such hearing may be heard upon the record so trans-
mitted, but the court may hear such additional evidence as it