1094 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 636

of the public. A certificate of authority issued to a corpora-
tion, partnership or association shall authorize only the officers
and directors of the corporation, or the members of the part-
nership or association, specified in the certificate.

(d) The fee to be paid to the Insurance Commissioner by
the applicant for such public adjuster's or public adjuster
solicitor's certificate at the time the application is made, and
annually for the renewal thereof, shall be twenty-five dollars.
If the applicant be a corporation, partnership or association
such fee shall be paid for each person specified in the certifi-
cate. If any such certificate shall be issued for a period less
than a year, a ratable sum shall be charged therefor up to the
thirty-first day of December next succeeding the date of the
application.

(e) Every public adjuster's or public adjuster solicitor's
certificate of authority shall expire on the thirty-first day of
December of the calendar year in which the same shall have
been issued, but if an application for the renewal of any such
certificate shall have been filed with the Insurance Commis-
sioner before January first of any year the certificate of
authority sought to be renewed shall continue in full force and
effect until the issuance by the Insurance Commissioner of the
new certificate applied for or until five days after the Insur-
ance Commissioner shall have refused to issue such new certifi-
cate and shall have served notice of such refusal on the appli-
cant therefor. Service of such notice shall be made by
registered mail directed to the applicant at the place of busi-
ness specified in the application.

(f) Before any public adjuster's or public adjuster solicitor's
certificate of authority shall be issued by the Insurance Com-
missioner, there must be filed in his office a written application
therefor. Such application shall be in the form or forms and
supplements thereof prescribed by the Insurance Commissioner
and must set forth (1) the name and address of the applicant,
and if the applicant be a partnership or association, the name
and address of each member thereof, and if the applicant be a
corporation, the name and address of each of its officers and
directors; (2) whether any certificate of authority as agent,
broker or public adjuster or public adjuster solicitor has been
issued theretofore by the Insurance Commissioner to the appli-
cant, and, if the applicant be an individual, whether any such
certificate has been issued theretofore to any partnership or
association of which he was or is a member or to any corpora-
tion of which he was or is an officer or director, and, if the
applicant be>a partnership or association, whether any such
certificate has been issued theretofore to any member thereof,
and, if the applicant be a corporation, whether any such certifi-
cate has been issued theretofore to any officer or director of