122                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                          [CH. 89

ards and are engaged in professional nursing on March 25, 1904, or
have been engaged in nursing five years after graduation, prior to
March 25, 1904, also those who are in training on March 25, 1904,
and shall graduate hereafter, and possess the above qualifications,
shall be entitled to registration without examination, provided such
application be made before June 1, 1906. Graduates of Training
Schools in connection with special hospitals, giving a two years'
course, who shall obtain one year's additional training in an approved
general hospital, shall be eligible for registration without examination
before June 1, 1906; or said graduates shall be eligible for registra-
tion prior to said date upon passing a special examination before the
Board of Examiners in subjects not adequately taught in the training
schools from which they have been graduated.

And it shall be unlawful after June 1, 1906, for any person to
practice professional nursing as a "Registered Nurse", without a
certificate from said State Board of Examiners and that it shall be
unlawful after June 1, 1917,] It shall be unlawful after June 1,
1955 for any person to practice professional nursing as a graduate,
certified or registered nurse without a certificate from said State
Board of Examiners. A nurse who has received his or her certificate
according to the provisions of this sub-title shall be styled and known
as a "Registered Nurse". No other person shall assume such title
or use the abbreviation R.N., or any other letters or figures to indi-
cate that he or she is a graduate, certified or registered nurse.

281-A. Beginning in the month of January, 1956 and during the
month of January in every second year thereafter, every registered
nurse, registered with said Board of Examiners, shall cause his or
her certificate to be recorded in the office of said Board of Examiners
together with an affidavit or other proof satisfactory to said Board
of Examiners of his or her identity as the person to whom the same
is issued and of his or her place of residence at the time of such
recordation. The registrant shall pay to said Board of Examiners
a fee of Two Dollars ($2.00) for each such recordation. It shall be
unlawful after February 1, 1956 for any person to practice nursing
as a registered nurse unless his or her certificate has been recorded
as provided in this section; provided, however, that the failure to
record such certificate shall not be cause for the revocation by said
Board of Examiners of such certificate. ANYONE WHO SHALL
faIL TO RE-RECORD HIS OR HER CERTIFICATE AS PRO-
VIDED BY THIS SECTION SHALL, NOTWITHSTANDING
SUCH faILURE TO RECORD, REMAIN ELIGIBLE FOR RE-
RECORDATION AT ANY TIME THEREAFTER WITHOUT EX-
AMINATION, UPON APPLICATION FOR RE-RECORDATION
AND PAYMENT OF THE FEES THEREFOR.

285.    The State Board of Examiners of [graduate nurses] Nurses
may revoke any certificate for sufficient cause, but before this is done
the holder of said certificate shall have thirty days' notice, and after
a full and fair hearing of the charges made, by a majority vote of
the whole Board, the certificate may be revoked.

285-A. The State Board of Examiners of Nurses is hereby
authorized to promulgate necessary regulations for the administra-
tion and enforcement of this sub-title.

286.    It shall be the duty of said Board of Examiners of Nurses
at its meetings, as provided for in Section 278 of this Article, to