1570                                                 LAWS OF MARYLAND                            [Ch. 390

nursing education programs; revising the criteria
for denying, revoking or suspending the license of a
person to practice nursing; and generally
reorganizing, removing obsolete provisions,]] and
making technical corrections and changes to certain
provisions of the Code relating to nursing.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 43 - Health

Section [[290 through 302, inclusive]]

290, 291(a) and (b), 292(a) and (b), 293(a) (4),

295, and 302

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF MARYLAND, That Sections 290. 291 (a) and (b), 292(a)
and (b), 293 (a) (41 . 295. and 302 of Article 43 - Health,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement
Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and they are hereby
repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows;

Article 43 - Health
290.

In order to safeguard life and health, no person
shall practice or offer to practice [professional
nursing] AS A REGISTERED NORSE or [practical nursing] AS
A LICENSED PRACTICAL NORSE in this State unless licensed
as [hereinafter] provided BY THIS SUBTITLE. It [shall
be] is unlawful for any person not licensed under the
provisions of this subtitle to practice or offer to
practice [professional nursing or practical nursing,]
NURSING, OR TO PRACTICE OR OFFER TO PRACTICE AS A
REGISTERED NURSE OR LICENSED PRACTICAL HORSE or to use
any sign, card or device to indicate that [such] THE
person is a [professional nurse, a] registered nurse or a
LICENSED practical nurse.

291.

As used in this subtitle the following terms [shall]
have the meanings indicated unless a contrary meaning is
clearly intended from the context in which the term
appears:

(a)    "Board" means the State Board of Examiners of
Nurses.

(b)     (1) ["Practice of professional nursing"
means the performance for compensation of any acts in the