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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 700

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 56 - Licenses

447.

(A) If any person shall work at the plumbing business in
this State without being qualified as required by this subtitle
of this article, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be [ fined not less than five
dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, for every day or every part
of every day that such workman shall work at the plumbing
business] SUBJECT TO A FINE NOT TO EXCEED $100 OR IMPRISONMENT
NOT TO EXCEED 6 MONTHS, OR BOTH.

(B) THIS PENALTY SHALL BE APPLICABLE FOR EACH DAY OR EACH
PART OF A DAY THAT THE PERSON WORKS AT THE PLUMBING BUSINESS IN
THIS STATE WITHOUT BEING QUALIFIED AS REQUIRED.

453.

(a)  The Board of Commissioners may make such rules and
regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of this
subtitle and for the performance of their duties hereunder, from
time to time, as in their judgment they may deem necessary, and
they may provide for the examination of applicants for journeyman
plumbers' certificates or permits, and for the issuing of
certificates or permits to journeyman plumbers after passing such
examination as the Commissioners may deem proper. The
Commissioners shall designate them either "certificates" or
"permits", as they may deem proper. They shall provide for the
issuing of permits to apprentices, but journeyman plumbers and
apprentices shall be authorized to work only under the direction
and control of a duly certified master plumber. The certificates
or permits shall be so framed as to show that journeyman plumbers
and apprentices are authorized to work only as above provided.

(b)  The Board may demand and receive from each journeyman
plumber the sum of $15 at the time of issuing of the first
certificate to a journeyman plumber, and the sum of $20 for the
biennial renewal thereof on or before the first day of May.
There shall be a charge of $5 for the issuing of the first permit
and $10 for biennial renewals of permits to apprentices. The
Commissioners may fix the requirements of the competency and
qualification of applicants, whether of master plumbers or of
journeyman plumbers, as different standards, in their judgment,
for different parts of the State, and may accordingly limit the
certificates so as to permit the holder thereof to do plumbing
work only in certain specified sections of the State, as the
Commissioners may determine.