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An. Code, sec. 22. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 22. 1924, ch. 341.

22. If an employer shall default in any payment required to be made
by him to the State Accident Fund, the amount due from him may be col-
lected by civil action against him in the name of the State of Maryland,
and the Commission, whenever it may deem it necessary, shall certify to
the Attorney-General of the State the names and residences, or places of
business, of any employer known to the Commission to be in default for
such payment or payments, and the amount due from such employer, and
it shall then be the duty of the Attorney-General forthwith to bring or cause
to be brought against such employer a civil action in the proper Court for
the collection of such amount so due, and the same, when collected, shall
be paid into the State Accident Fund, and the policy which the State Acci-
dent Fund has issued to such employer shall cease to be in effect from the
date such certificate has been made to the Attorney-General of the State,
and shall not again be in effect until all premiums due by such employer
have been paid into the State Accident Fund.
See notes to sec. 14.

An. Code, sec. 23. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 23.

23. Ten per centum of the premiums collected from employers insured
in the State Accident Fund shall be set aside by the Commission for the
creation of a surplus until such surplus shall amount to the sum of fifty
thousand dollars, and thereafter five per centum of such premiums until
such time as in the judgment of said Commission such surplus shall be
sufficiently large to cover the catastrophe hazard. The Commission shall
also set up and maintain a reserve adequate to meet anticipated losses and
carry all claims and policies to maturity.
See notes to secs. 18 and 36.

An. Code, sec. 24. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 24.

24. The Treasurer of the State shall be the custodian of the State
Accident Fund and all disbursements therefrom shall be paid by him upon
order or voucher, approved and signed by the chairman or acting chair-
man and secretary of the Commission, and directed to the Comptroller of
the State, who shall draw his warrant therefor. It shall be the duty of
the Treasurer to keep and maintain the fund herein created separate and
distinct from other State funds. On and after January 1st, 1915, the
obligation in the bond of the State Treasurer shall contain a provision
securing the protection of this fund.

An. Code, sec. 25. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 25.

25. Whenever and as often as there shall be in the hands of the Trea-
surer any sum belonging to the State Accident Fund not likely, in the
opinion of the Commission, to be required for immediate use, it shall be
the duty of the Board of Public Works, when called upon by the Commis-
sion, to invest the same in interest-bearing securities, such as are accepted
by the equity courts of Baltimore City for the investment of trust funds,
and when and as it may become necessary or expedient to use the moneys
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