MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 1851

license.
BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 43 - Health

Section 345

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 345 of Article 43 - Health, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and
1973 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 43 - Health
345.

(A)    Any applicant for licensing as a funeral
director and embalmer must be a person of good moral
character, eighteen years of age or over, and free from
habits liable to interfere with the performance of the
duties of funeral director and embalmer. [He must have
had at least two years' practical experience as an
apprentice funeral director and embalmer, under a
licensed funeral director and embalmer in this State. As
an apprentice he must have assisted at not fewer than
twenty funerals and must have assisted in embalming not
fewer than twenty dead bodies. He must also have
registered as an apprentice with the State Board of
Funeral Directors and Embalmers of Maryland at the time
he began his apprenticeship; and he must have a high
school education or the equivalent thereof and must be a
graduate of a regular recognized college of embalming
whose course of instruction is not less than nine months
comprising 840 hours of study.]

(B)    AN APPLICANT MOST REGISTER AS AN APPRENTICE
WITH THE STATE BOARD OF FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS
AT THE TIME HE BEGINS HIS APPRENTICESHIP. DURING THE
COURSE OF APPRENTICESHIP, THE APPLICANT MOST HAVE TWO
YEARS PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE AND SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A
ONE-YEAR COURSE OF STUDY AT A RECOGNIZED COLLEGE OF
EMBALMING, AS APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD OF FUNERAL
DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS, OR TWO YEARS SUCH STUDY IN A
RECOGNIZED COLLEGE OF EMBALMING AND ONE YEAR PRACTICAL
EXPERIENCE. DURING THE APPRENTICESHIP THE APPLICANT MUST
ASSIST IN EMBALMING NOT LESS THAN 20 BODIES AND
PARTICIPATE IN NOT LESS THAN 20 FUNERALS.