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insurance or reinsurance is effected, shall be deemed an insurance
broker within the meaning of this article.
See note to sec. 220.

1904, art. 23, sec. 200. 1900, ch. 740, sec. 143s.

219. Any person applying for the same and paying to the insurance
commissioner the sum of one hundred dollars for the use of the State,
and an additional sum of one dollar as a fee to the said commissioner
for issuing said license, may obtain a license for carrying on the business
of an insurance broker, and no license shall be issued to permit more
than one person or the members of a bona fide copartnership to act
thereunder; provided, that any person or firm residing in any of the
counties of the State may, upon payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars,
obtain a license to act as broker as to risks situated in the county only
within which he or they may reside; and if such license be granted for
a portion of any year, a ratable sum shall be charged therefor up to the
first day of May next succeeding.

Ibid. sec. 201. 1894, ch, 377. 1900, ch. 740, sec. 143 c.

220. Any person who shall use or exercise the business or occupa-
tion of an insurance broker without having procured a license therefor,
as required by sections 218 and 219 of this article, shall be subject to a
penalty of five hundred dollars for each offense, one-half for the use of
the State, and the other half to the informer.

A portion of the act of 1896, ch. 266, being In conflict with article 3, section
29 of the Maryland constitution, and hence invalid, said act held not to
repeal the act of 1894, ch. 377. State v. Benzinger, 83 Md. 487; Field v.
Malster, 88 Md. 701.

Ibid. sec. 202. 1894, ch. 377, sec. 143 D.

221. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of the city of Baltimore and
the sheriff of each county throughout the State to furnish the insurance
commissioner, prior to the first day of May in each and every year
thereafter, the names of all persons conducting the business of "Insur-
ance Broker" within the respective jurisdiction of each of said sheriffs,
for which he shall receive a fee of fifty cents for each license issued by
the insurance commissioner.

Fire Marshal.

Ibid. sec. 203. 1894, ch. 248, sec. 1.

222. The governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, biennially appoint an officer to be known as the state fire
marshal, who shall hold his office until his successor shall have been
duly appointed and qualified; he shall be a citizen of the State, and be
subject to removal for cause at any time by the governor; and in the
event of the death, resignation, refusal to act or removal of said officer
during a recess of the legislature, the governor shall appoint some one
to fill said office for the unexpired term; and before entering upon the