418                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 139

3-5 and 3-6 of this subtitle, or as a journeyman electrician in such
class or classes of electrical business or work, as in the opinion of the
board, shall have properly fitted the applicant for a license as a
master or maintenance electrician. Any person whose application for
license shall have been rejected by said board shall have the right to
appeal to a board of arbitration, which shall consist of one person se-
lected by the person making the appeal, one person selected by the
board herein created, and these two to select a third person, and the
decision of said board of arbitration or a majority of them, shall be
final and binding upon all the parties to said appeal; the members
of said board shall be paid the sum of five dollars ($5.00) each, which
sum shall be deposited with the board herein created by the person
taking said appeal, and if the said board of arbitration shall affirm
the decision of the board herein created, the money so deposited shall
be used to pay said board; if, however, such decision be reversed,
the said Board of Arbitration shall be paid out of the funds in the
hands of the Board herein created, and said deposit of fifteen dollars
($15.00) shall be returned; provided, further, that each applicant
shall pay to the Treasurer of said Board of Electrical Examiners,
the sum of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) for master or twenty-five
($25.00) for maintenance license and provided, further, that every
person, firm or corporation before receiving a master electrician's
license shall make, execute and deliver to said Board a good and suffi-
cient bond to be approved by said Board, in the name of the State of
Maryland, in the penal sum of [one thousand dollars ($1,000.00)]
two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), the bond to be condi-
tioned upon the faithful performance of any and all work entered
upon or contracted for by said Master Electrician, and to save harm-
less the owner, or real party in interest in the property for which any
such material is furnished, or services performed against loss, dam-
age and injury which shall arise through want of skill, or through
the failure to use suitable or proper material in the performance of
any work contracted for or undertaken by said Master Electrician,
or his or its agents or employees, and an action may be maintained
thereon in the name of such owner or real party in interest only,
if commenced within one (1) year from and after the date of the
installation of the materials furnished or performance of such work
or service.

3-9.

No person, firm or corporation granted a license under the provi-
sions of this subtitle shall install, maintain, service, or repair elec-
trical wires, conductors or apparatus for electric light, heat or power
purposes after the expiration of said licenses, or after said license
shall have been suspended or revoked as herein provided; unless the
said license or renewal of same shall have been renewed so herein
provided; provided, that any person, firm or corporation so granted
a license under the provisions of this subtitle (unless the said li-
cense shall have been revoked or suspended as hereinafter provided),
shall be granted a renewal of said license without examination of the
applicant, provided, application is made to the said Board by the
holder of such license within the three months preceding the expira-
tion of such license, upon payment of a fee of [fifteen dollars
($15.00)] twenty-five ($25.00) for a [Master] master electrician's
license and [ten dollars ($10.00)] fifteen dollars ($15.00) for a
maintenance electrician's license, and the said renewal of said license