HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(C)  Any person appointed or employed by the State, a
county, or any local government to inspect plumbing or
drainage work may not have any pecuniary interest in any
plumbing business, and, upon such appointment or employment,
shall relinquish his master's or journeyman's certificate to
the Board. Upon termination of the appointment or
employment, the person may reactivate his master's or
journeyman's certificate without examination by written
request to the Board and payment of the appropriate renewal
fee. The Board may issue identification receipts or cards to
inspectors who have relinquished their certificates.

(D)  In cases of emergency in which it would be
impractical to require two years' experience, one year's
experience as a journeyman plumber will qualify the
applicant for a master's certificate. Whenever by any of the
general or local laws of this State it is provided that a
permit shall be granted to anyone qualified to work at the
plumbing business or to do plumbing work, however the same
may be designated, or that certain appointments shall be
given to or certain duties shall be performed by one
qualified to do plumbing work, or any other reference is
made to one qualified to do work which is included under the
term "plumbing work," however the same shall be designated,
then such general or local laws shall be held to refer only
to one qualified to work at the plumbing business under his
own direction, that is, one holding a certificate authorized
to be called a "master plumber's certificate," and may not
be held to refer to a journeyman plumber or to an
apprentice. [The Commissioners may revoke any certificate
or permit which, after notice to the holder and hearing,
they may determine has been obtained by . fraud or
misrepresentation, or has been issued by mistake or
inadvertence. The Commissioners may revoke or suspend for
such time as they may deem proper the operation of any
certificate or permit when the Commissioners, after notice
to the holder and a hearing, determine that the holder has
used the certificate or permit contrary to the provisions of
this subtitle, or to any rules or regulations of the
Commissioners adopted in pursuance of the provisions of this
subtitle, or contrary to the limitations contained in the
certificates or permit, or has violated any of the
provisions of this subtitle.] Nothing in this subtitle
shall be construed to prevent incorporated gas companies
from making connections of gas appliances for domestic
purposes. [The Board of Commissioners shall prescribe rules
and regulations for the issuance of a certificate, on a
reciprocal basis, to any plumber presenting a master
plumber's certificate issued by a board or agency of any
subdivision or official body of this State, for the current
year, when the standards of competency or fitness
established by such board or agency are equal to or more
than the requirements of the Board of Commissioners, and the
applicant shall pay the fees provided by this subtitle and
deposit the bond required by the Board of Commissioners.]