3.674 ARTICLE 101

This Article shall not apply to cases of occupational disease in which
the last injurious exposure to the hazards of such diseases occurred before
June 1, 1939.

1939, ch. 465, sec. 32G.

40. There shall be a Medical Board consisting of three members who
shall be licensed physicians in good professional standing, two of whom
shall have had at least five (5) years' practice in the diagnosis, treatment
and care of industrial diseases, and one of whom shall be especially trained
in roentgenology, and who shall have had at least five (5) years' practice
and experience. They shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate from a list of nominees to be sub-
mitted by the Deans of the medical departments of the University of Mary-
land and of the Johns Hopkins University, and by the council of the Medi-
cal and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, each of these three agencies to
submit a list of at least three persons, two of whom shall be especially
experienced in occupational diseases, and one of whom shall be an ex-
perienced roentgenologist. One of said members shall be designated as
Chairman of the Medical Board by the Governor. The term of office of
a member of such Board shall be six (6) years, except that the first ap-
pointments hereunder shall be made as follows: one for two (2) years,
one for four (4) years, and one for six (6) years. Vacancies shall be filled
for the balance of the unexpired terms in the same manner as the original
appointments as hereinabove provided. A majority of the Medical Board
shall constitute a quorum. The Medical Board shall have the power and
authority to make rules regulating its procedure, to contract for laboratory
work, to make necessary investigations of working conditions; to provide
for ordering and the conducting of autopsies, to conduct hearings on medi-
cal questions, to determine medical issues, and to perform such other rea-
sonable duties as the work of the Board may require. The functions of the
Board shall be as set forth elsewhere in this Article.

The members of the Medical Board shall devote as much of their time
as may be required to perform the duties and carry out the functions of
the Board as set forth in this Article. The Chairman of the Medical Board
shall receive an annual salary of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
($2500.00) and the two associate members of the Board shall receive an
annual salary of Two Thousand Dollars ($2000.00) each, and each mem-
ber of the Board shall be entitled to the reasonable and necessary traveling
and other necessary expenses incurred while actually engaged in the per-
formance of their duties.

1939, ch. 465, sec. 32H.

41. Upon the filing of a claim for compensation for death from an
occupational disease where an autopsy is necessary to accurately and
scientifically ascertain and determine the cause of death, such autopsy
shall be ordered by the Medical Board and shall be made under the super-
vision of the coroner, medical examiner or public official equivalent thereto.
The Medical Board may designate a duly licensed physician, who is a
specialist in such examinations, to perform or attend such autopsy, and
to certify his findings thereon. Such findings shall be filed with the Medi-
cal Board and shall be a public record. The State Industrial Accident
Commission also may exercise such authority on its own motion or on