16                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                            [CH. 8

issue serially numbered licenses to persons who operate plants in
conformance with this sub-title.

215C. No person shall engage in any of the businesses for which
a license is required under the provisions of this sub-title, without
first complying with the provisions thereof. All persons who are
engaged in a business which subjects them to any of the provisions
of this sub-title shall make application for a license immediately
after the effective date of this sub-title, and upon so doing shall be
permitted to continue in such business unless and until such appli-
cation is rejected by the State Board of Health. The application
shall be accompanied by a fee of ten dollars ($10. 00). Upon receipt
of the fee and approval, the license shall be issued.

215D. When any such application shall have been properly filed
with the State Board of Health, it shall be the duty of said Board
to inspect all properties identified in such application, together with
all buildings and equipment; and if such property, building, and
equipment be found to conform to the regulations of said Board, a
separate license for each property so approved shall forthwith be
issued to the applicant. Such license shall be non-transferable and
shall expire on the last day of February of each year unless sooner
revoked according to the provisions of this sub-title, and a new
license shall be applied for each year.

215E. Whenever the State Board of Health shall find that any
of the provisions of this sub-title have been violated by the holder
of any license issued by said Board, or that such violation has oc-
curred or is occurring on any premises for which license is issued,
the State Board of Health shall forthwith give notice to such licensee
in writing, setting forth the nature of such violation, and directing
that such violation shall cease, and if such licensee shall refuse or
fail to comply with such notice in such time and manner as set forth
in the notice, the State Board of Health may thereupon revoke such
license. Before revoking any license the State Board of Health shall
give written notice to the licensee affected, stating that it contem-
plates the revocation of the same and giving its reasons therefor.
Said notice shall appoint a time of hearing, and shall be mailed by
registered mail to the licensee. On the day of hearing, the licensee
may present such evidence to the State Board of Health as he deems
fit, and after hearing all the testimony, the State Board of Health
shall decide the question in such a manner as to it appears just and
right.

215F. Any applicant for a license, or any licensee who shall feel
aggrieved by the action of the State Board of Health in failing to
issue or in revoking such license, may, within ten days after receipt
of such notice of such failure or action, take an appeal therefrom
to any court having equity jurisdiction in the county in which the
property identified by the application or license is located, or to a
court having such jurisdiction in the City of Baltimore, if said
property is located in said City; and a copy of such appeal shall be
filed with the State Board of Health. Within five days after the
receipt of such copy the Board shall transmit to such court all the
original papers pertaining to such application, suspension, or revoca-
tion, and such appeal shall thereafter be heard by such court as
promptly as circumstances will reasonably permit. Such hearing