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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 322-JUNE 7, 1938 other good cause, and shall fill any vacancy thus occasioned by appointment within thirty days after such vacancy occurs. Mem- bers appointed to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation, or removal shall serve only for the unexpired term of their predeces- sors. The Commissioners shall appoint a president, a vice president, and a secretary-treasurer from the members of the Board. The secretary of the Board shall keep a record of its proceedings, a register showing the name and business and residence addresses of persons to whom it has issued certificates, and the number and date of the certificate of each such person. Subject to the approval of the Commissioners, the Board shall adopt such rules and sanitary regulations as prescribed by the Health Department of the District of Columbia and as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. The Board shall report annually to the Commissioners all of its official acts during the preceding year and shall make such recom- mendations as it deems expedient. SEC. 4. The Board shall issue a certificate of registration as a registered barber to any person of good moral character and tem- perate habits who has practiced as a registered barber apprentice for two years under the immediate personal supervision of a regis- tered barber, and who passes an examination, conducted by the Board to determine his fitness to practice barbering, accompanied by a health certificate showing that he is free from contagious and infec- tious diseases and issued by a registered licensed physician of the District of Columbia under oath. SEc. 5. The Board shall issue a certificate of registration as a registered barber apprentice to any person who is at least sixteen years of age and is of good moral character and temperate habits who passes an examination conducted by the Board to determine his fitness to practice as a barber apprentice, accompanied by a health certificate showing that he is free from contagious and infectious diseases and issued by a registered licensed physician of the District of Columbia under oath. SEC. 6. The Board shall conduct examinations of applicants for certificates of registration as registered barbers or registered barber apprentices on the third Tuesdays in January, April, July, and October, at such hours as the Board shall prescribe. Such examina- tions shall include both a practical demonstration and a written examination. SEC. 7. Any person who has engaged in the practice of barbering in the District of Columbia for one year immediately preceding the date of enactment of this Act shall be granted a certificate as a registered barber without practical examination by making applica- tion, accompanied by a health certificate showing that he is free from contagious and infectious diseases and issued by a registered licensed physician of the District of Columbia under oath, and paying the required fee within ninety days of enactment of this Act; failing to do so, he must take an examination according to the law; and any other person engaged in the practice of barbering in the District of Columbia on the date of enactment of this Act shall be granted a certificate as a registered barber apprentice without examination by making application and paying the required fee, and the time spent engaged in the practice of barbering shall be credited to him as a part of the time required to be spent as a registered barber apprentice for the purpose of qualifying as a registered barber, but must be accompanied by a health certificate showing that he is free from contagious and infectious diseases and issued by a registered licensed physician of the District of Columbia under oath. 621 Appointments to vacancies. Officers. Records to be kept. Rules and sanitary regulations. Annual report, etc. Certificates of regis- tration. Registered barbers. Health certificate. Registered barber apprentice. Examinations of ap- plicants. Exceptions to exam- ination requirements. Health certificate. Payment of fee. Registered apprentices. barber Time credits.

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