Vehicles and the Insurance Commissioner, ex officio; and four repre-
sentatives of insurers appointed annually by the Insurance Commis-
sioner.

The Board administers the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund,
which was created from the following sources: (1) an $8.00 fee paid
on April I or May 1, 1958 for each uninsured motor vehicle by the
person registering the vehicle; (2) a $1.00 registration fee paid on
April I or May 1, 1958 for each insured motor vehicle by the person
registering the vehicle; (3) 0.5% of the net direct written premiums
of each insurer for the year 1968. Beginning on December 30, 1959
the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles is to estimate annually the
amount necessary to enable the Fund to pay claims against it for the
following year. If there is a deficiency, he is to make it up as follows:

(1) the insurers are to pay a sum not greater than 0.6% of the aggre-
gate net direct written premiums of all insurers during the preceding
calendar year, or 10% of the estimated deficiency, whichever is smaller;

(2) persons registering uninsured motor vehicles are to pay a fee
arrived at by dividing the remaining deficiency by the number of
uninsured motor vehicles registered during the preceding registration
year. Qualified persons who have suffered property damage or per-
sonal injury in motor vehicle accidents involving uninsured motorists
and who have recovered judgments of more than $100, but who have
been unable to collect the sums due, may apply to the Court for an
order directing payment from the Fund. The maximum amounts pay-
able from the Fund are (1) $10,000 for injury or death of one person
in any one accident; (2) $20,000 for injury or death of more than one
person in any one accident; and (3) $5,000 for damage to property in
any one accident. Persons who have failed to pay Judgments may not
hold a driver's license or register a car in Maryland until they have
reimbursed the Fund with interest (Code 1957, Art. 66 1/2, sec. 174).

Appropriations 1959 1960

Special Funds . $67,705 $72,179
Staff: 4.

MARYLAND TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMISSION

Chairman: Paul E. Burke

Richard B. Ayares, 1961; Michael Dopkin, 1961; R. Melvin
Goetze, 1961; Jerome Kahn, 1961; Leonard H. Rosenberg,
1961; Murray J. Rymland, 1961; Charles Adler, Jr., 1963;
Daniel Burkhardt, 1963; Clarence D. Grant, 1963; Leroy M.
Griffin, 1963; Myles Katz, 1963; J. 0. Shuger, 1963; Aldine R.
Bird, 1965; James H. Levi, 1965; Theodore J. Phillips, 1965;
T. Harry Riley, 1965; Patrick J. Roche, 1966; William E.
Voyce, Jr., 1966.
Paul E. Burke, Executive Director

Guilford Avenue, and 21st Street, Baltimore 18
Telephone: Hopkins 7-1455

The Maryland Traffic Safety Commission, organized in 1941, consists
of eighteen members appointed by the Governor for six-year terms,
one-third of these terms expiring every two years.

The Commission seeks to promote traffic safety on the streets and
highways of Maryland; to coordinate the activities of public and
private agencies interested in, or affected by, the problems of traffic
safety; and to assist such agencies to augment their programs by
study, education, and information. The Commission has enlisted the
aid of business associations, civic groups, and newspapers in the pro-