MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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exception for student licensees; and correcting
language.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 43 - Health

Section 550(a) and (b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 550(a) and (b) of Article 43 -
Health, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 43 - Health

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] THE 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] OCTOBER next succeeding
unless renewed for the next year. HOWEVER, STUDENT
LICENSES SHALL EXPIRE ON THE 31ST DAY OF AUGUST NEXT
SUCCEEDING UNLESS RENEWED FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

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] OCTOBER of
each year AND, PRIOR TO THE 31ST DAY OF AUGUST OF EACH
YEAR FOR STUDENTS, and the payment of the renewal fees
provided in this subtitle[, said application to]. THE
APPLICATION SHALL 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]. CERTIFICATES of renewal issued to
apprentices shall be limited to two in number.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 8, 1975.