PARRIS N. GLENDENING. Governor                             Ch. 662

requirements of academic credits required for a mortuary science program before
applying for a license; reducing the number of times that an apprentice license may
be renewed; repealing a provision that specifies certain educational requirements for an
applicant for an apprentice license; requiring that, prior to an individual appearing
before the State Board of Morticians for approval of an apprentice license, certain
education requirements be completed; altering a provision that restricts the number of
years that an applicant for a mortician license may serve as a licensed apprentice;
providing a certain ground for the denial, suspension, or revocation of a license or the
reprimand of a licensee; authorizing the Board, the Attorney General, or a States
Attorney to bring a certain action to enjoin certain activities; requiring thai a certain
action be brought in a certain county; requiring sellers of pre-need contracts to annually
have the seller's accounts certified by certain public accountants; requiring that sellers of
pre-need contracts submit to the Board a certain certificate by a certain date; requiring
that, after cremation, a licensee ensure that a plastic identification tag be placed in a
certain container; reducing the amount of time an apprentice must work and the
number of embalmings and funerals an apprentice must assist with or participate in;
reducing the number of years amount of time that an applicant for a mortician
license may spend as an apprentice; and generally relating to on apprentice license
to assist in the practice of mortuary science licensed morticians.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article—Health—Occupations
Section 7-306(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
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Section 7-303(b) 7-303(b)(2), 7-306(c) 7-306(c) and (d)(3) 7-306, and 7-314(e),

7-316(a)(29) and (30), and 7-411(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health Occupations

Section 7-316(a)(31); and 7-316.1, and 7-405(g)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

Article - Health Occupations

7-303.

(b) The Board shall examine all applications for licensure for the practice of
mortuary science and shall issue the mortician license to any person who:

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