MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 4-2 and 4-5 of the Public Local
Laws of Baltimore City being Article 4 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1969 Edition) be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

Article 4

4-2.

The [said] board [shall have] HAS general
supervision of all stationary engineers within the State
of Maryland, except as hereinafter provided[; it shall be
their duty to]. THE BOARD SHALL examine all engineers of
the age of twenty—one years or upwards, who shall apply
to them for examination, and to give all parties so
examined a certificate of proficiency if found
proficient, and to refuse to give such certificate if not
found proficient[, and the]. THE parties [so] receiving
such certificate shall pay to the [said] board the sum of
[Ten Dollars ($10.00) ] $10 for each certificate [so]
issued and from all renewals of all grades the sua of
[Five Dollars ($5.00); said] $5. THE certificate shall
be of four grades; a certificate of the first grade will
permit the holder [thereof] to take charge of any plant
of machinery; the second grade to take charge of any
plant of machinery from one to five hundred horse—power,
and the third grade to take charge of any plant of
machinery from one to thirty horse—power, and the fourth
grade to take charge of any hoisting or portable plant of
machinery[; and the said]. THE certificate shall run for
the tern of one year, and shall be renewed annually[ , the
term of beginning of said certificate to be from the date
of the examination of the respective applicants;
provided, that no] ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF
FEBRUARY. NO engineer having such certificate shall have
charge of more than one plant of machinery at the same
time unless said plant be of the same company and at one
and the same place; and no substitute who has not been
examined and received a certificated aforesaid,] shall
be placed in charge of machinery by any engineer who has.

4-5.

Each member of the Board of Examining Engineers
shall receive an annual salary as provided in the Budget
from time to time, and [shall have power to] MAY employ a
clerk or secretary at a salary, and such expense shall be
allowed the Board as shall be incurred in traveling
expense, office rent, stationery and printing, and for
which they shall produce to the Comptroller of the State
Treasury, proper voucher[; provided, however, that no].
NO appropriation shall be made and no moneys paid by the