Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-04-30
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF 1904
STATE BOARD OF UNDERTAKES.
CHAPTER $50.


AN ACT to repeal Sections 1, s and 3
of Chapter 100 of the Acts of 1902.
entitled, An Act to create the State
Board of Undertakers of Maryland,
and to prescribe the powers and du-
ties of the said board. and to re-
enact the same with amendments.
Sec BE it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland. That Sec
tions l. s and > of Chapter 100 of the
Acts of 1902. entitled An Act To ere
ate and establish the State Board OF
Undertakes of Maryland. and to pre-
scribe the powers and duties of the
said board be and the same are here
by repealed and re-enacted so as TO
read as follows:
Sec. BE it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That {
board composed of eight members be
and the same is hereby created and
established. to be known as the State
Board of Undertakers, of Maryland.
and the powers and duties of the
said board are here prescribed.
Sec. S.-Before any person. CO.
partnership or corporation shall here
after engage in the business of under
taking in the State of Maryland and
before any member of any such CO.
partnership, assistant or employee of
any such person, co-partnership, Or
corporation or officer of such corpora
ton whose duties will engage him or
her in care, preparation, disposition
or burial of the dead shall discharge
the duties of such business. employ
ment or Office, and before any person,
co-partnerShip or corporation now 50
engaged in said business of under
taking in this State; and before any
member of such co-partnership, assist
ant or employee of any such person,
co-partnership or corporation or Off
Ger of such corporation, whose duties
now engage him or her in the care,
preparation, disposition, or burial of
the dead, who shall have failed to reg
lister with the said board in accori-
ance with Section of this Act, shall
then continue in such business. such
persons, cO-partnerShips, corporations,
members of such co-partnerships and
all assistants and employees of any
such persons, co-partnerships, corpor-
ations, and officers of such corpora
lions, whose duties engage him or her
in the care, preparation, disposition
or burial of the dead, shall apply TO
the said board for a license to prac-
tice the same; thereupon the applicant
as aforesaid shall present himself or
herself before said board at a time
and place fixed py said board, and il
the said board shall find upon due ex-
animation that the applicant has been
employed at least two years prior to
said application by some person, firm
or corporation actively engaged in the
work of practical embalming and I'M
dertaking and is of good moral char
acter. possessed of skill and know
ledge of the said business, and has
reasonable knowledge of sanitation,
preservation of the dead, disinfecting
the body of a diseased person, the
apartment, clothing and bedding, in
case of death resulting from in
fictitious or contagious disease, the
board shall issue to said applicant,
upon the payment of a fee of twenty
dollars, license to practice said
business of undertaking in the State
of Maryland, and shall register such
applicant as duly licensed under
taker; provided, however, that such
license shall be issued to a corpora
ton upon application therefor, and,
provided, further, that one license as
required by this section and Section
10, of this Act, shall suffice for all the
members of co-partnership when is
sued in the firm name. Such license
shall be signed by majority of the
board and attested by its seal. All
persons. co-partnerships and corpora
tons, Immediately upon receiving the
license provided in this section and in
Section 10 of this Act, or the GER
tificate of registration as provided in
Section I of this Act, shall cause a
copy of such license or certificate of
registration to be filed in the Office of
the local Board of Health of Maryland
in the respective county or in the city
of Baltimore in which it is proposed
to carry on said business, or engage
in the discharge of such employment;
said license or certificate of registra-
ton shall be displayed in a conspic-
uous place in the Office or place of
business of such licensee.
Sec. 9.-The board shall have pow
er at any time to revoke, cancel or
suspend any license heretofore grant
ed, for and upon proper cause shown,
and after full hearing of all the par
ties in interest shall have been had.
At said hearing testimony shall be
given under oath administered by
some person competent under the law
to take affidavits and such testimony
shall be taken down by shorthand by
a competent stenographer appointed
by said board. which testimony shall
be typewriter and returned under the
oath of said stenographer to said
board.