138                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 105

then by next friend. Employment certificates shall be of 4 classes,
general employment certificates, vacation employment certificates,
special employment certificates, and coordination employment cer-
tificates. General employment certificates shall entitle the minor to
work during the entire year, vacation employment certificates shall
entitle the minor to work during such time as the minor is not
required to attend public or private school under the provisions of
the State school attendance law. Special employment certificates
shall be issued to a minor found incapable of profiting by further
educational instruction as provided in Section 38, and a coordination
certificate shall be issued to a minor who is participating in a school
work coordination plan as provided in Section 39.

24(c)

A certificate signed by a licensed physician stating that the minor
has been examined by him and in his opinion the minor is in suffi-
ciently sound health and physically able to be employed in the occu-
pation for which a permit is applied [.] may be required if the best
interest of the minor is served thereby.

24(d)

Evidence of age showing that the minor is of the required age
for the job he intends to enter which shall consist of one of the fol-
lowing proofs of age and shall be required in the order as follows:

(1)  A duly attested transcript of the birth certificate filed accord-
ing to law with a registrar of vital statistics, or other officer charged
with the duty of recording births, which certificate shall be prima
facie evidence of the age of the minor.

(2)   A passport or a duly attested transcript of a certificate of
baptism snowing the date of birth and place of baptism of the minor.

(3)  A bona fide contemporary record of the date and place of the
child's birth kept in the Bible in which the records of the births in
the family of the child are preserved, a passport showing the age
of the child, a bona fide school record, a certificate of arrival in the
United States issued by the United States immigration officers and
showing the age of the child, or a life insurance policy; provided,
that such other satisfactory documentary evidence has been in exist-
ence at least one year prior to the time it is offered in evidence,; and
provided further that a school record or a parent's, guardian's or
custodian's affidavit, certificate or other written statement of age
shall not be accepted except as specified in paragraph (4).

(4) In case none of the proofs required by paragraphs (1), (2) or
(3) of this subsection can be produced, the officer issuing the permit
may issue a temporary permit allowing the minor to work for 10
days and shall accept as full proof of age the sworn affidavit of the
minor's parent, guardian, legal custodian or next friend, such affi-
davit containing the name of the minor, alleged age, place and date
of birth, present residence and any other information that may
assist in determining the age of the minor and the further affidavit
that the evidence of age required by paragraph (1) or (2) of this
subsection cannot be produced by the applicant; and if upon investi-
gation by the officer no facts appear contradicting any of the mate-
rial statements of such application, the officer may, after 10 days,