PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 369

(b)     No person shall, directly or indirectly, act as a public adjuster, or receive for or
because of services rendered in the adjustment of any claim or claims for loss or damage
by fire or allied coverage under a policy or policies of insurance upon property within this
State any money or commission or other thing of value, without first procuring a license
to act as a public adjuster.

(c)     The Commissioner shall issue such public adjuster licenses ONLY to
individuals[, partnerships, associations or corporations, applying therefor,] whom he
deems to be trustworthy and competent to transact business as public adjusters in such
manner as to safeguard the interests of the public. [A license issued to a corporation,
partnership or association shall authorize only the officers and directors of the
corporation, or the members of the partnership or association, specified in the license, to
act for the licensee in the adjustment of losses.]

[(d) The fee prescribed in § 41 shall be paid to the Commissioner by the applicant
for such public adjuster's license at the time the application is made, and biennially for
the renewal thereof. If the applicant be a corporation, partnership or association, such fee
shall be paid for each individual specified in the license.]

(D) (1) PRIOR TO TAKING AN EXAMINATION, AN APPLICANT SHALL PAY
THE APPLICATION FEE PRESCRIBED UNDER § 41(4)(VII) OF THIS ARTICLE.

(2)     ONCE AN APPLICANT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THE APPLICANT
HAS PASSED THE EXAMINATION REQUIRED UNDER THIS SECTION OR IS OTHERWISE
ELIGIBLE TO BE LICENSED, THE APPLICANT SHALL SUBMIT THE APPLICABLE
LICENSE FEE PRESCRIBED IN § 41(7)(I) OR (II) OF THIS ARTICLE.

(3)     A PERSON NOT REQUIRED TO TAKE AN EXAMINATION SHALL PAY
THE APPLICABLE LICENSE FEE PRESCRIBED IN § 41(7)(I) OR (II) OF THIS ARTICLE.

(e)     (1) Every public adjuster license shall expire on the thirty-first day of
December of every odd-numbered year, but if an application for the renewal of any such
certificate shall have been filed with the Commissioner before January first of any year
the license sought to be renewed shall continue in full force and effect until the issuance
by the Commissioner of the new license or until five days after the Commissioner shall
have refused in writing to issue such new license and shall have served notice of such
refusal on the applicant therefor.

(2) TO RENEW A PUBLIC ADJUSTER'S LICENSE, A LICENSEE SHALL
SUBMIT TO THE COMMISSIONER:

(I) A RENEWAL APPLICATION IN THE FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE
COMMISSIONER; AND

(II) THE BIENNIAL LICENSE RENEWAL FEE PRESCRIBED BY §
41(7)(III) OF THIS ARTICLE

(f)     Before any original public adjuster license shall be issued by the
Commissioner, there must be filed in his office a written application therefor. Such
application shall be in the form prescribed by the 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

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