414 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 224

of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled
"Insurance, " said new sub-title to be known as "Non-Profit
Hospital Service Plans" and said new sections to be known
as Sections 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207 and 208,
and to follow immediately after Section 199, providing for
the licensing and regulation of non-stock corporations or-
ganized under the General Corporation Laws of this State
for the purpose of operating Non-Profit Hospital Service
Plans and providing penalties for the violation of this Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 488A to 488J, inclusive, of Article 1 of the
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany County, " sub-
title "Non. Profit Hospital Service Plans, " as enacted by Chap-
ter 476 of the Acts of 1935, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new sub-title and nine (9) new sections be,
and the same are hereby added to Article 48A of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Insurance", said
new sub-title to be known as "Non-Profit Hospital Service
Plans", and said new sections to be known as Section 200,
201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207 and 208, to follow immediately
after Section 199 of said Article, and to read as follows:

200. NON-PROFIT HOSPITAL SERVICE PLANS. Any corpora-
tion without capital stock heretofore or hereafter organized,
under the provisions of Article 23 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of this State, for the purpose of establishing, main-
taining and operating a Non-Profit Hospital Service Plan
whereby hospital care is provided by a hospital, or hospitals,
to persons who become subscribers to such Plan under a con-
tract which entitles each subscriber to certain hospital care,
shall be governed and regulated by the provisions of this sub-
title, and by no other law relating to Insurance unless such law
is referred to under this sub-title, and no law hereafter enacted
shall apply to such corporations, unless they are expressly
designated therein.

201. LICENSE. No corporation subject to the provisions of
this sub-title shall issue contracts for the rendering of hospi-
tal service to subscribers until the Insurance Commissioner
has, by formal certificate or license, authorized it to do so.
Application for such certificate of authority or license shall
be made on forms to be supplied by the Insurance Commis-
sioner, containing such information as he shall deem neces-
sary. Each application for such certificate of authority or
license, as a part thereof, shall be accompanied by copies of the