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($100. 00) or more than one thousand dollars ($1, 000. 00) for
each subsequent offense.

SEC. 2. And be It further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved April 5, 1945.

CHAPTER 551.
(House Bill 19)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
92B of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943
Supplement), title "Insurance", sub-title "Agents and
Brokers", relating to the qualifications of fire and casualty
agents, solicitors, and of brokers and broker's solicitors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 92B of Article 48A of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Insurance", sub-title
"Agents and Brokers", be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

92B. (Qualifications of Fire and Casualty Agents, Solici-
tors, and of Brokers and Broker's Solicitors. )

(a) Before the Insurance Commissioner shall issue a certifi-
cate of authority or license to any person to act as agent,
solicitor, broker or broker's solicitor, except to sell life in-
surance only, or life insurance in conjunction with either or
both of accident and. health insurance as provided in Sections
83, 90 and 91 of this Article, he shall require the applicant
therefor to satisfy him that he has had sufficient education or
experience in. the insurance business and to satisfactorily pass
such an examination relating to the kind or kinds of insurance
to which the license may extend as the Commissioner may re-
quire for the purpose of determining whether he is qualified to
receive such license, provided that such examination shall be
given by the Commissioner at least once every thirty days, at
places as the Commissioner shall from time to time determine.
The applicant shall pay to the Insurance Commissioner a fee of
Five Dollars ($5. 00) which shall entitle the said applicant to
two such examinations in addition to the first, for license to
write the same class of insurance, should the applicant require
the same, provided that any additional examination after the
first shall be taken within a period of one year from the date