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75TH CONG. , 3 D SESS.-CH. 321-JUNE 7, 1938 nations are held and no longer. Two such temporary licenses may not be issued to the same person. Each temporary license shall state the date of expiration and the temporary license shall after such date be void and of no effect. TO WHOM THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT SHALL NOT APPLY SEa. 24. Nothing in this Act shall prohibit service in case of emergency, or domestic administration, without compensation, nor services by persons authorized under the laws of the District of Columbia to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, chiropody, osteop- athy, or chiropractic, nor services by barbers, insofar as their usual and ordinary vocation and profession is concerned, when engaged in any of the following practices, namely: Arranging, cleansing, cutting, or singeing the hair of any person; nor in massaging, cleans- ing, stimulating, exercising, or similar work, the scalp, face, or neck of any person, with the hands, or with mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances, or by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams; nor shall anything in this Act apply to the practice of physiotherapy or massaging, stimulating or exercising of the head, neck, arms, bust or upper part of the body, when done for purposes of health and hygiene rather than for cosmetic purposes. RENEWAL OF CERTIFICATES SEC. 25. The certificates of registration issued in the year in which this Act goes into effect shall expire as of April 15, 1938. Thereafter certificates shall be issued for no longer than one year. All cer- tificates shall expire on the 15th day of April next succeeding unless renewed for the next year. Certificates may be renewed by applica- tion made prior to the 15th day of April of each year accompanied by a health certificate in the manner prescribed in section 7 and the payment of the renewal fees provided in this Act. The holder of an expired certificate or license may have within three years of the date of expiration the certificate restored upon the payment of the required renewal fee and satisfactory proof of his or her quali- fications to assume practice or occupation. PENALTIES SEC. 26. (a) Any person who shall violate or aid or abet in violat- ing any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than $300 or imprisonment in the workhouse of the District of Columbia for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (b) Any operator, manager, instructor, student, or apprentice who shall practice the occupation of cosmetology while knowingly suffering from contagious or infectious disease, or who shall know- ingly serve any person afflicted with such disease, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $300 or imprisonment in the workhouse of the District of Columbia for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. PROSECUTIONS SEC. 27. It shall be the duty of the corporation counsel, or one of his assistants, to prosecute in the name of the District of Columbia all violations of the provisions of this Act. Exemptions from provisions of Act. Renewal of certii- cates. Expiration date. Ante, p. 614. Penaltes. Violations of pro- visions of Act. Practie while suf- fering contaious dis- ease. Prosecutions 619 .52 STAT.]