Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1435

cates or permits to journeyman plumbers after passing such exami-
nation as said Commissioners may deem proper, said Commissioners
designating them either "certificates" or "permits," as they may
deem proper and they may provide for the issuing of permits to
apprentices, so that, however, said journeyman plumbers and said
apprentices shall be authorized to work only under the direction and
control of a duly certified master plumber; and that said certificate
or permits shall be so framed as to show that said journeyman
plumbers and said apprentices are authorized to work only as above
provided. Said Board may demand and receive from each journeyman
plumber the sum of five dollars ($5.00) at the time of issuing of
the first certificate to said journeyman plumber, and the sum of
two dollars ($2.00) for the renewal thereof each and every year
thereafter, on or before the first day of May; and said Board, at any
time, may require, on any application for renewal, any applicant
to pass another examination before issuing any renewal or may
issue any renewal without requiring any other examination, as said
Board in each case, from year to year, may deem proper; but no
charge shall be made for the issuing of permits or renewals of
permits to apprentices. Said Commissioners may fix the require-
ments of the competency and qualification of applicants, whether
of master plumbers or of journeyman plumbers, as different stand-
ards, in their judgment, for different parts of the State, and may
accordingly limit the certificates so as to permit the holder thereof
to do plumbing work only in certain specified sections of the State,
as said Commissioners may determine. Except where provided other-
wise in this Article, applicants for master's certificates must have
had at least two years' experience as a journeyman plumber. Pro-
vided that, in IN cases of emergency in which it would be impractical
to require two years' experience, one year's experience as a journey-
man plumber will qualify the applicant. FOR A MASTER'S CER-
TIFICATE. Whenever by any of the general or local laws of this
State it is or shall be provided that a permit shall be granted to
anyone qualified to work at the plumbing business or to do plumb-
ing work, however the same may be designated or that certain
appointments shall be given to or certain duties shall be per-
formed by one qualified to do plumbing work, or any other ref-
erence is made to one qualified to do work which shall be included
under the term "plumbing work," however the same shall be
designated, then such general or local laws shall be held to refer
only to one qualified to work at the plumbing business under
his own direction, that is, one holding a certificate authorized to
be called a "master plumber's certificate," and shall not be held
to refer to a journeyman plumber or to an apprentice. Said Com-
missioners may revoke any certificate or permit which, after notice
to the holder and hearing, they may determine has been obtained
by fraud or misrepresentation, or has been issued by mistake or
inadvertence, and said Commissioners may revoke or suspend for
such time as they may deem proper the operation of any certificate
or permit when the said Commissioners, after notice to the holder
and a hearing, shall determine that the holder thereof has used
such certificate or permit contrary to the provisions of this subtitle,
or to any rules or regulations of said Commissioners adopted in
pursuance of the provisions of this subtitle, or contrary to the limita-
tions contained in said certificates or permit, or has violated any of
the provisions of this subtitle. Nothing in this subtitle shall be con-
strued to prevent incorporated gas companies from making con-