Time of Verification.

3053. [Sec. 14.] Not more than sixty days shall elapse between the earliest and latest verification of any sheet of any petition and no sheet verified more than sixty days before the filing of the petition in the office of the Secretary of State shall be considered.

Documents Not to be Mutilated.

3054. [Sec. 15.] No persons shall destroy any sheet of a recall petition or nomination petition nor any volume of either, nor an entire petition, nor any certificate contemplated by this · Act accompanying either, nor shall any person mutilate any of the documents described above, nor shall any name signed to any sheet of any recall or nomination petition be erased or strickened therefrom upon any plea whatsoever, and no person, not a legal voter, shall circulate or sign any recall petition or nomination petition, or verify same, or make any affidavit contemplated or required by this Act.

Failure to Perform Duty.

3055. [Sec. 16.] Any official whose duty it is by law to do or perform any act necessary or incident to the recall election provided for in this Act, who by this Act is required to do and perform any duty or discharge any function incident or necessary to such recall election, who shall fail or refuse to do and perform such act or discharge any duty or function, shall be guilty of an offense, and shall be punished as provided for in Section 18 of this Act.

Purpose of Act.

3056. [Sec. 17.] It is hereby declared to be the purpose of this Act and of the amendment to the Constitution of the State of Louisiana relative to the recall of certain officers elected by the people, to furnish a quick and sure means by which an officer elected by the people may be removed by the people without intervention of the Courts and without delays, and a substantial compliance with the terms, conditions, and requirements of this Act shall be sufficient, so that the spirit and intention of the Act be observed rather than the letter.

Penalty.

3057. [Sec. 18.] Any person who shall be guilty of any of the offenses denounced by this Act, and who shall be guilty of vio

lating any of the terms of same, shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars and not more than Two Thousand Dollars or by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than one year, and not more than three years; either fine or imprisonment or both may be inflicted within the discretion of the Court.

EMBALMING AND UNDERTAKING.

State Board of Embalming and Undertaking.

3058. [Sec. 1, Act 66, 1914, p. 157.] There is hereby established and created a board to be known as the State Board of embalming and undertaking. The said board shall consist of five members to be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the President of the Louisiana State Board of Health, which said five members shall be chosen from a list of twenty-five names which shall be furnished to the President of the Louisiana State Board of Health by the Executive Committee of the Louisiana State Funeral Directors' Association, and all vacancies occurring on the Board shall be filled by the Governor on recommendation of the President of the Louisiana State Board of Health for the unexpired term. The term of each member of said board shall be for five years, except those first appointed, who shall serve as follows: one for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years and one for five years. The Governor shall designate the number of years in his first appointments each member shall serve. The members composing said board shall be as follows: Two embalmers duly licensed under the present regulations of the Louisiana State Board of Health, and three undertakers eligible to registration under this act, having had experience in their respective professions and business for at least five years. The members of said board shall be citizens of this state. All are eligible for reappointment. The appointing officer shall have the power to remove any member of said board for neglect of duty, incompetency or improper conduct.

First Board.

3059. [Sec. 2.] The first Board shall be appointed on or before the 15 day of Aug., 1914, and one member annually thereafter, on the aforesaid date, who shall serve for a term of five years from the date of his appointment. All appointments on the board shall be selected from five names sent to the president of the

Louisiana State Board of Health for recommendation to the Governor by the Executive Committee of the Louisiana State Funeral Directors' Association; but if said nominations are not made to the appointing officer by the fifteenth day of June of any year, then the said appointing officer shall appoint and commission a suitable person, under the requirements of Section 1 of this Act, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of the said member.

Board to Take Oath of Office.

3060. [Sec. 3.] The Governor shall furnish each person appointed to serve on the State Board of embalming and undertaking a certificate of appointment, and such appointee shall qualify by taking the usual oath of office before any officer authorized by law to administer oaths in this State, within ten days after said appointment has been made and this fact shall be noted on the certificate of appointment and shall be filed with the Board of Embalming and Undertaking.

Failure of Appointee to Qualify.

3061. [Sec. 4.] Should the appointee not qualify within the time specified under Section 3 of this act, the appointing officer shall within ten days after notification from the Board of Embalming and Undertaking, appoint another suitable person, under the requirements, to fill the vacancy thus caused by said failure to qualify.

Powers of Board.

3062. [Sec. 5.] For the purpose of carrying out the objects set forth in this act, the Board of Embalming and Undertaking shall have the power and it shall be its duty:

1. To prescribe a standard of efficiency as to the qualifications of those who desire to practice the science of embalming and those who desire to engage or who are engaged in the business of undertaking in connection with the care and disposition of dead human bodies in this State.

2. To meet at least once a year and oftener as the proper and efficient discharge of the duties may require. Three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all its business and the performance of all its duties.

3. To elect at the first meeting of the Board, and annually thereafter, on the second Tuesday in July of each year, a Presi

dent, Vice-President, Secretary and a Treasurer from the members of said Board, who shall serve for one year or until their successors shall be declared elected and qualified.

4. To adopt a common seal.

5. To adopt by-laws, rules and regulations, from time to time, whereby the practice of embalming and the business of undertaking shall be regulated.

How Present Embalmers May Continue in Business.

3063. [Sec. 6.] Any person who, at the time this act takes effect shall have the right to practice embalming under the present requirements of the Sanitary Code of the Louisiana State Board of Health, and who desires to continue as an embalmer under this act, shall on or before the thirty-first day of December, 1914, file with the secretary of the said Board of Embalming and Undertaking the certificates issued by the said Louisiana State Board of Health, and upon payment of the fee not to exceed fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall receive a certificate authorizing him to continue the said practice of embalming in this State, and anyone attempting to practice embalming in this State after the thirty-first day of December, 1914, without having complied with the provisions of this Section, shall be subject to prosecution for the violation of this act.

How Present Undertakers May Continue in Business.

3064. [Sec. 7.] Any person, who at the time this act takes effect, shall be actually engaged in the business of undertaking in this State, and desires to continue in such business, shall on or before December thirty-first, 1914, file with the Board of Embalming and Undertaking, a verified written application for authority to continue to do business as an undertaker, stating therein the fact of his having been so engaged in business of undertaking and accompanying the same with the payment of a necessary fee not to exceed five dollars ($5.00), and the said Board shall thereupon issue to said applicant a certificate to continue said business of undertaking in this State.

Application for Certificate; Examinations; Registration of Certificates.

3065. [Sec. 8.] From and after the first day of January 1915, every person or persons desiring to practice the science of embalming or to engage in the business of undertaking within the State of Louisiana, and not having complied with Sections 6

and 7 of this Act, shall make a written application to the State Board of Embalming and Undertaking for a certificate authorizing him or them to practice the said science of embalming or to engage in the business of undertaking, accompanying said application with such fee not to exceed fifteen dollars ($15.00); whereupon the applicant aforesaid shall present himself or herself before said Board at a time and place to be fixed by said Board, and if the Board shall find upon examination that the said applicant is of good moral character, possessed of a knowledge of the science of embalming, sanitation and disinfection and is up to the standard of efficiency as may be prescribed in the qualifications for a certificate as an embalmer or for a certificate to engage in the business of undertaking, the Board shall issue to said applicant a certificate authorizing him to practice the said science of embalming or a certificate authorizing him to engage in the business of undertaking in this State, and shall register such applicant as a duly certified embalmer or undertaker; such certificate shall be signed by the President and Secretary of the Board of Embalming and Undertaking and shall be attested by its seal, and it shall be the duty of all persons receiving certificates under the provisions of this act to register same in the office of the Louisiana State Board of Health within ten days after the receipt of said certificate and thereafter to display said certificate in a conspicuous place in the office or place of business of said person who has received said certificate.

Annual Renewal of Certificates.

3066. [Sec. 9.] All right conferred by certificates issued under the provisions of this act shall cease on the thirty-first day of December of each year; anyone who shall receive a certificate from this board and who desires to continue in the business of undertaking or the practice of embalming in this State, shall in order to continue in the said practice of embalming or in the business of undertaking pay each year to the Secretary of this Board on or before the thirty-first day of January of each year the fee not to exceed five dollars ($5.00) for the renewal of said certificate authorizing the continuance of the practice of embalming or in the business of undertaking in this State.

Revocation of Certificates.

3067. [Sec. 10.] The State Board of Embalming and Undertaking shall have the power and is hereby granted the power