1902                                               LAWS OF MARYLAND [Ch. 558

demonstrators.

550.

(A)    The certificates of registration issued in the
year in which this subtitle goes into effect shall expire
as of the year in which said licenses are issued.
Thereafter certificates shall be issued for no longer
than one year. All certificates shall expire on the
thirty—first day of December next succeeding unless
renewed for the next year.

(B)    Certificates may be renewed by application on
renewal forms to be supplied by the Board on request made
prior to the thirty-first day of December of each year,
and the payment of the renewal fees provided in this
subtitle, said application to be accompanied by an
affidavit of a practicing physician on a form to be
furnished by the Board, stating that the applicant is
free from any contagious and infectious disease,
provided, however, that certificates of renewal issued to
apprentices shall be limited to two in number.

(C)    Any holder of a license under the provisions
of this subtitle, with the exception of an electrologist,
who has been inactive for a period of five years or more
shall be required to take and pass an examination
prescribed by the Board before a renewal of a certificate
of registration is issued.

(D)    Any holder of a license issued for the
practice of electrology under the provisions of this
subtitle, who has been inactive for a period of one year
or more shall be required to take and pass an examination
prescribed by the Board before a renewal of a certificate
of registration is issued.

(E)    ANY HOLDER OF A LICENSE ISSUED FOR THE
TEACHING OF BEAUTY CULTURE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
SUBTITLE, SHALL BE REQUIRED TO ATTEND AT LEAST ONE
COURSE, SEMINAR OR PROGRAM APPROVED BY THE BOARD ONCE
EVERY TWO YEARS AND SUCH HOLDER SHALL BE REQUIRED TO
SUBMIT TO THE BOARD A CERTIFICATE VERIFYING SUCH
ATTENDANCE BEFORE A RENEWAL OF 1 CERTIFICATE OF
REGISTRATION IS ISSUED.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That new
Sections 529(s), 536 (c) and (d) be and they are hereby
added to Article 43 — Health, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) to
read as follows:

Article 43 - Health