Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-05-20
CHAPTER 436.

MARYLAND Code of 1900 title
oHealth," by adding to said Article
Seven sections under the subtitle
plumbing" to be known as Sec
tlons 1874, 1856. 1856, 1877, 1SS, 1S9
and 1870.
Section BE it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
Article AZ of the Code of Public Cen
oral Laws of Maryland (Code of 1900
title Health be and the same is
hereby amended by adding seven
sections thereto under the subtitle,
plumbing" to be known as Sections
1S4. 1856, 1856, 1877, 1888, 1879 and 100,
and to read as follows:
Plumbing.
1S4-It shall not be lawful for any
nerson, firm or corporation to en-
nloy as workmen to do plumbing
work in the State of Maryland any
nersons except those qualified to
work at the plumbing business, as
provided in this subdivision Of this
Article. and no person shall be quail
fled to work at the plumbing bust
ness in this State unless he has made
application to and received from the
state Board of Commissioners of
Practical Plumbing the certificate Of
competence described in Section 1856
of this Article and is otherwise quail
flied as required by this subdivision
of this article. Any person or firm
engaged in the plumbing business in
this State, and the superintendent,
manager, agent or other officer Of
any corporation engaged in the
plumbing business in this State, who
shall employ any person to work at
the plumbing business who is not
qualified as required by this subdivi-I
sion of this Article, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic-
ton thereof, shall be fined not less
than ten dollars, nor more than fifty
dollars, for every day or part of
every day that such employer shall
employ such workman. And any per-
son or firm not engaged in the
plumbing business in this State, and
the superintendent, manager, agent
or other officer of any corporation not
engaged in the plumbing business in
this State, who shall employ any per
son to do plumbing work in this
State, knowing the person so EN-
ployed is not qualified to work at the
plumbing business as required by
this subdivision of this Article, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, up
on conviction thereof, shall be fined
not less than ten dollars, nor more
than fifty dollars, for every day or
part of every day that such en-
ployer shall so employ such work
man.
1871 any person shall work at
the plumbing business in this State
without being qualified as required
by this subdivision of this Article,
he shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than
five dollars, nor more than fifty dol
lars, for every day or every part of
every day that such workman shall
work at the plumbing business.
1S6-The governor snaII appoint
biennially five persons who shall con-
stitute a Board of Commissioners,
which shall be known and designat-
ed as THE State Board OF Commits
sioners of Practical Plumbing" and
who shall be selected as follows:
Three persons who are practical and
skilled plumbers from the city OF
Baltimore, the Commissioner of
Health of Baltimore City, and men,
Der of the State Board of Health
from the State at large, whose duty
1t shall be to faithfully and Impair
TALLY execute, or cause to be exc
cuted, all the provisions and require
ments of this subdivision of this Ar
t.cle; upon application and at such
place or places in this State as they
may determine, provided at least
once in each year the examination
shall be held in Baltimore city, they
shall examine each and every per.
son who shall desire to work at the
plumbing business, touching his COM
potency and qualifications; and, up
on being satisfied that the person so
examined is competent and qualified
to work at, conduct and engage in
the said plumbing business for the
period for which such certificate
shall be granted, and such certificate
may be called or designated by sad
board a Master Plumbers Certifi-
cate.'
1S7-The said Board of Commits
sioners shall demand and receive
from such applicant for a certificate
of competency whom they examine
and pass, the sum of three dollars at
the time of the issuance of said GER
tificate, and the sum of one dollar
for the renewal thereof each and
every year thereafter, on or before
the first day of May, and said board
at any time may require on any ap-
plication for renewal any applicant
to pass another examination before
issuing any renewal, or may issue
any renewal without requiring any
other examination, as said board in
each case from year to year may
deem proper
1SS-The money received under
the provisions OF the foregoing sec
tion shall be used and applied by
said Commissioners TO pay their com
pensation and all their expenses, in
Guiding such reasonable expenses,
costs and fees as they may incur,
and which they are hereby authoriz-
ed to incur out of the money so re-
ceived by them, in investigating any
alleged violations of the provisions