Ch. 80                               MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  141

APPLYING FOR OR SEEKING CONTINUATION OF APPROVAL AS AN
ACCEPTED REINSURER SHALL FILE ANNUALLY WITH THE
COMMISSIONER ITS ANNUAL STATEMENT ON CONVENTION FORM
AND CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT AND COMPLIANCE. The

Commissioner shall not so approve or accept any such reinsurance by a ceding
domestic insurer which he finds for good cause would be contrary to the interests
of the policyholders or stockholders of such insurer.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved April 26, 1973.

CHAPTER 80
(Senate Bill 560)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 261 of Article 43 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1972
Supplement), title "Health," subtitle "Commissioners of Pharmacy," to correct
a previous omission relating to the educational qualifications for registration as
a pharmacist; and modifying the arrangement of this section.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 261 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Health,"
subtitle "Commissioners of Pharmacy," be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

261.

(A)   Any person of good moral character, who has had four years' actual
experience in a pharmacy where physicians' prescriptions are daily compounded, or
has served an internship program regulated by the Board and has attained the age
of twenty-one years, who shall present satisfactory evidence to the Maryland Board
of Pharmacy that he or she has had at least four years standard high school
TRAINING OR ITS EQUIVALENT, AND IS A GRADUATE OF A
[(REPUTABLE]] SCHOOL or college of pharmacy approved by the said Board
or accredited by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education, as published
in their official listing and who after examination by the said Board shall be by it
deemed competent, shall be registered as a pharmacist and be given a certificate of
such registration, provided, however, that not more than three years may be
deducted from the four years of actual drugstore experience aforesaid, for the
actual time of attendance at a reputable school or college of pharmacy or an
internship program to be regulated by said Board be served. Such person shall
make application to the secretary of said Board at least ten days before any stated
meeting of the Board and shall pay to the said Board a fee of forty dollars.

(B)   No applicant for examination before the Board of Pharmacy having the
other qualifications herein set forth shall be disapproved because he took his course
of studies at a night school or college and nothing in this subtitle shall be held to
abridge or abrogate the rights and privileges heretofore conferred by law upon any
person now registered as assistant pharmacist in this State.