THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                   813

CHAPTER 478
(House Bill 109)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 312 and
315 of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949
Edition), title "Baltimore City," sub-title "Examining Engineers,"
increasing the fees for licenses and the salary of the secretary of
the State Board of Examining Engineers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 312 and 315 of the Charter and Public Local Laws of
Baltimore City (1949 Edition), title "Baltimore City/' sub-title
"Examining Engineers/' be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

312. The said board shall have general supervision of all stationary
engineers within the State of Maryland, except as hereinafter pro-
vided; it shall be their duty to examine all engineers of the age of
twenty-one years or upwards, who shall apply to them for examina-
tion, and to give all parties so examined a certificate of proficiency if
found proficient, and to refuse to give such certificate if not found
proficient, and the parties so receiving such certificate shall pay to
the said board the sum of [Three Dollars ($3)] Five FOUR Dollars
($5) ($4) for each certificate so issued and from all renewals of all
grades the sum of [One Dollar and fifty cents ($1.50)] Three TWO
Dollars ($3) ($2); said certificate shall be of four grades; a certificate
of the first grade will permit the holder thereof to take charge of any
plant of machinery; the second grade to take charge of any plant of
machinery from one to five hundred horse-power, and the third grade
to take charge of any plant of machinery from one to thirty horse-
power, and the fourth grade to take charge of any hoisting or portable
plant of machinery; and the said certificate shall run for the term of
one year, and shall be renewed annually, the term of beginning of said
certificate to be from the date of the examination of the respective
applicants; provided, that no engineer having such certificate shall
have charge of more than one plant of machinery at the same time
unless said plant be of the same company and at one and the same
place; and no substitute who has not been examined and received a
certificate, aforesaid, shall be placed in charge of machinery by any
engineer who has.

315. The said Board of Examining Engineers shall receive an
annual salary of Fifteen Hundred Dollars each, and shall have power
to employ a clerk or secretary at a salary not exceeding the sum of
One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars per annum, and such expense
shall be allowed said Board as shall be incurred in traveling expense,
office rent, stationery and printing, and for which they shall produce
to the Comptroller of the State Treasury, proper vouchers; provided,
however, that no appropriation shall be made and no moneys paid by
the State Treasurer to said board for or on account of said salaries

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.