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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch.8

the "practice of mortuary science". The intent of this
wording is to preserve whatever common law rights presently
may exist for individuals to use alternative disposition
procedures. The issue and the proposed resolution are
called to the attention of the General Assembly.

Registration.

The present provisions of Art. 43 that govern the
practice of mortuary science provide that the Board shall
"register" all licensees, and that apprentices must be
"registered" to practice in this State. The statutes then
provide for periodic reregistration of apprentices, i.e.,
periodic registration renewal. On analysis, the Commission
to Revise the Annotated Code has found that these provisions
serve no substantive purpose that could not be accomplished
more directly by the pattern followed under Art. 43 for the
licensing of most other health occupations. That pattern
requires that the practitioner have a license and renew the
license periodically. Moreover, the references to
registration and reregistration may mislead a practitioner
by implying that the practitioner's license is fundamentally
different from the license held by any of the other health
practitioners who practice under statutes without references
to registration.

It is a precept of the Commission to Revise the
Annotated Code to revise the law in a clear, straightforward
manner, and once something is said, to say it the same way
each time it is said. To obtain clarity and consistency and
to avoid the superfluous and misleading aspects of the
present references, throughout this title, all references to
the requirement that a practitioner must be registered are
deleted and references to periodic license renewal are
substituted for all references to periodic reregistration.
These are changes in form only; no change in substance is
intended.

Deletion.

Present Art. 43, § 367, which concerns the severability
of the provisions of this Title, is deleted as unneccessary
in light of Art. 1, § 23 of the Code.

TITLE 7. NURSES.

SUBTITLE 1. DEFINITIONS; GENERAL PROVISIONS.

7-101. DEFINITIONS.

(A) IN GENERAL.

IN THIS TITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This subsection presently appears as
the introductory paragraph of Art. 43, § 291.