Section 11-301 - Licensure. - Maryland Statutes

§ 11-301. Licensure.
 

(a)  Required.- Except as otherwise provided in this title, an individual shall be licensed by the Board before the individual may practice as an environmental sanitarian in this State. 

(b)  Applicability.- This section does not apply to: 

(1) A sanitarian-in-training; 

(2) A student participating in a field experience as part of an educational program; 

(3) An applicant for licensure in accordance with § 11-304(b)(5) of this subtitle; and 

(4) A qualified individual in any of the following job classifications: 

(i) Industrial hygienists as defined by the American Industrial Hygiene Association; 

(ii) Certified industrial hygienists and industrial hygienists in training as defined by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene; 

(iii) Health planners or natural resource planners; 

(iv) Building and housing inspectors; 

(v) Geologists; 

(vi) Chemists; 

(vii) Meteorologists; 

(viii) Laboratory scientists; 

(ix) Professional engineers who are licensed in this State under Title 14 of the Business Occupations and Professions Article and whose professional activities are normally included in § 11-101(e) of this title; 

(x) Public health engineers and water resources engineers employed by the State or a local subdivision; 

(xi) Hydrographers and hydrographic engineers; 

(xii) Natural resources managers; 

(xiii) Natural resources biologists; 

(xiv) Program administrators, administration directors, administrators, administrative officers, and administrative specialists; 

(xv) Paraprofessional personnel, aides, and technicians whose routine duties include monitoring, sampling, and recording of data; 

(xvi) Persons employed by the Department of Natural Resources or related county departments who perform duties and responsibilities under the Natural Resources Article; 

(xvii) Persons employed by the Department of the Environment or related county departments who perform duties and responsibilities for erosion and sediment control, stormwater management, or oil pollution control under Title 4 of this article; 

(xviii) Persons employed by the Department of the Environment or related county departments who perform duties and responsibilities for ambient air monitoring under Title 2 of this article or for motor vehicle pollution control under Title 2 of this article or Title 23 of the Transportation Article; 

(xix) Persons employed by the Division of Labor and Industry of the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation who perform duties and responsibilities under the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act; 

(xx) Occupational safety and health technologists as defined by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and the Board of Certified Safety Professionals; 

(xxi) Safety professionals as defined by the American Society of Safety Engineers; 

(xxii) Certified safety professionals and associate safety professionals as defined by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals; 

(xxiii) Persons employed by industrial operations whose environmental services are performed solely for their employer; and 

(xxiv) State milk safety inspectors performing duties under the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments and employed by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 43, §§ 735, 736; 1981, ch. 8, § 2; 1984, ch. 560; 1985, ch. 219; 1987, ch. 306, § 3; 1993, ch. 423; 1995, ch. 120, § 19; 2004, ch. 230; 2006, ch. 44, § 6.]