The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-04-29
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF 1904
STATE BOARD OF uNDERTAKERs.
CHAPTER $50.

Cilstl IN OoJ.
AN ACT to repeal Sections l, and
of Chapter 100 of the Acts OF 1892,
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. 1.-Bo it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly Of Maryland That sec
lions /, s and J oil Chapter lUJ of the
Acts of 1902, entitled An Act to Gre
ate and establish the State Board OF
Undertakers OF Maryland, and 10 pre-
scribe the powers and duties OF Inc
said board" be and the same are mere
by repealed and re-enacted SO as 10
read as follows:
Sec. BE it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly Of Maryland. That i
board composed Of eight members be
and the same is hereby created ana
established, to be known as The state
Board OF UndertakeTs, Of May land,
and the powers and duties Of the
said board prescribed.
Sec. S.-Before any person, CO.
partnership or corporation shall here
after engage in the business vi under
taking IN the State Of AIa.yIauu and
before any member Ul any sucl CO.
partnership, assistant or employee OF
any such peroOl, CO-partHgrau!p, or
corporation or officer vi aUcn corpora
ton whose duties VIII engage hin or
her in care, preparation, disposition
or burial OF the dead snail discharge
the duties or such business, employ
ment or office, and before any person,
co-partnership or corporation now SO
engaged i'll said business Of under
taking IN this St2LG; and before any
member OF such CO partnership, assist
ant or employee Oh any such person,
co-partnership or corporation or ON
Ger OF such corporation, hose duties
now engage him or her in the care,
preparation, disposition, OF burial OF
the dead, who shall have failed TO reg
lister with the SAID board in acCOr1-
ance with Section of this Act, shall
then continue in sucn business, such
persons, co-partners hips, corporations,
members OF such cO-partnerships and
all assistants and employees OF any
such persons, partnerships, cOrpor-
atlons, and officers OF such corpora
tions, whose duties engage him or her
in the care, preparation, disposition
or burial OF the dead, shall Apply 10
the said board Tor q license to prac-
uce the same; thereupOQ the applicant
as aforesaid shall present himself or
herself before said board at & time
and place to be fixed by said board, and
the said board shall md 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 IN
dertaking and IS Of good moral char
acter, possessed of SIKH and know
ledge OF the said business, and has a
reasonable knowledge of sanitation,
preservation OF the dead, disinfectng
the body of a diseased person, the
apartment, clothing aud bedding, in
case of death resulting from In
fictitious or contagious disease, the
board shall issue 10 said applicant,
upon the payment OF a fee OF twenty
dollars, license TO practice said
business OF undertaking in the State
OF Maryland, and SHAH register such
applicant as a duly licensed under
taher; provided, however, that such
license shall be lssueu to a corpora
ton upon application therefor, and,
provided, further, that one license as
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-partnersnips and corpora
lions, Immediately upon receiving the
license provided in this section and in
Section ~ OIL this Act, or the GER
titCate of registration as provided in
Section OF this Act shall cause q
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, o. engage
in the discharge OF such employment;
said license or certificate OF regISCra-
ton shall be displayed in a conspic-
uous place in the office or place OF
business OF such hcenSee.
Sec. 9.-1he 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 fuil hearing OF ali the par
ties in interest shall have been mad.
AT said hearing testimony shall be
given under >ath administered by
some person competent under the law
to take attidavits anu sucA testimony
shall be taken down by shorthand by
a competent stenOgrapler appointed
by said board, which testimony shall
be typewriter and returned under the
oath of said stenographer to said
board.
Approved April Z, 1904.