Ch. 35                                     1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 35
(House Bill 105)

AN ACT concerning

State Board of Public Accountancy - Membership, Licensure, and Examinations

FOR the purpose of altering the qualifications for membership of the State Board of
Public Accountancy in a certain manner; authorizing the Board to release its list of
licensees and permit holders to the public; allowing requiring permit holders and
licensees to designate at a certain time a mailing address which may be released to
the public; altering the circumstances under which the Board may grant a waiver of
certain examination requirements; and generally relating to the State Board of
Public Accountancy.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Business Occupations and Professions
Section 2-202, 2-207, 2-208, 2-209, 2-210, and 2-308
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Business Occupations and Professions

Section 2-208

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1995 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

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

Article - Business Occupations and Professions

2-202.

(a) (1) The Board consists of 7 members.
(2) Of the 7 members of the Board:

(i) [4] 5 shall be licensed certified public accountants, of whom:

1.       [3] 4 shall practice certified public accountancy actively; and

2.       1 shall be a full-time professor of accounting at an accredited
college; AND

(ii) 2 shall be consumer members[; and].

[(iii) 1 shall be a lawyer who:

1. practices law in the State;

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